Overleg gebruiker:Rodejong/Archief2018

IdaP

Hi .. I just got a notification that I couldnt create the page that I am doing due to copyright violation?.-.. but it is my picture...

Sincerly Fabian Petersen

The page in question is IdaP

I take this to your own discussion page on the Danish Wikipedia.  Kind regards,   Rodejong   ^💬 Talk ^✉️ Email  ^📝 Edits  ^👀 Auth  🕘 →  25 feb 2018 14:49 (CET)

Vertaling Gryet

De vertaling van Gryet (Duits > Nederlands) staat gereed op de projectnaamruimte ter verdere bewerking. Omdat dit voor mijn stage bij ITV is, zou ik graag feedback van je krijgen: vragen, suggesties, opmerkingen etc. NB ik heb Bautastenen met een hoofdletter geschreven, omdat je dit ik zag dat je dit ook in een ander (Nederlands) stuk deed. Vriendelijke groet, HenJo59 (overleg) 7 mrt 2018 20:28 (CET)

Dank u wel, ik ga er mee aan de gang :-)  Kind regards,   Rodejong   ^💬 Talk ^✉️ Email  ^📝 Edits  ^👀 Auth  🕘 →  7 mrt 2018 20:46 (CET)

Vertalingen ITV Hogeschool

Hoi RodeJong, je hebt een redelijk groot aantal artikelen op de vertaallijst van de pagina van het ITV vertaalproject geplaatst. Ben jij nog op nl:wiki aan het werk zodat je ook de vertaalde artikelen kunt (en wilt) wikificeren en verbeteren (en de stagiaires kunt ondersteunen)? Of heb je liever dat de door jou aangedragen onderwerpen van de lijst(en) (tijdelijk?) verwijderd worden? Hartelijke groet, Ecritures (overleg) 16 mrt 2018 21:56 (CET)

Een week geleden heb ik juist Gryet verwerkt hetgeen door HenJo59 was aangeleverd. Ik blijf paraat voor de volgende artikelen.  Kind regards,   Rodejong   ^💬 Talk ^✉️ Email  ^📝 Edits  ^👀 Auth  🕘 →  16 mrt 2018 22:02 (CET)

Hartstikke fijn :), Ecritures (overleg) 16 mrt 2018 22:53 (CET)

Hallo RodeJong, na het artikel Gryet heb ik nu ook de artikelen Gamleborg en Bautastein opgepakt voor vertaling. HenJo59 (overleg) 17 mrt 2018 07:53 (CET)

Ah - fantastisch. Daar zie ik naar uit. Dank je.  Kind regards,   Rodejong   ^💬 Talk ^✉️ Email  ^📝 Edits  ^👀 Auth  🕘 →  17 mrt 2018 10:22 (CET)

Thomas Hansen Erslew

Hoi Rodejong, je hebt recent het artikel Thomas Hansen Erslew aangemaakt waarbij je in de bewerkingssamenvatting aangaf dat het een vertaling was van het Zweedse Wikipedia-artikel over die man. In het nl-wiki artikel staat dat hij "archivaris bij het kultuurministerie" was. Kun je aangeven waarom je gekozen hebt voor het woord 'kultuurministerie' (dus met een k en bovendien een kleine k). Verder schreef je "Hij heeft onder andere het ... uitgegeven ". Kun je aangeven hoe je aan 'onder andere' komt; oftewel met welke woorden in het Zweedse Wikipedia-artikel aangegeven wordt dat hij meer heeft uitgegeven dan die ene publicatie. In het Zweedse Wikipedia-artikel staat o.a. "... utmärkt för sällsynt noggrannhet och fullständighet samt för rikedom på personhistoriska upplysningar." Dat lijkt me weggelaten uit de vertaling en dan klopt de bewerkingssamenvatting niet; of mis ik wat? Ten slotte voegde je hier bronnen toe die niet als bron opgegeven zijn in het Zweedse Wikipedia-artikel. Hoe weet jij zo zeker dat die bronnen gebruikt zijn bij het schrijven van dat Zweedse Wikipedia-artikel? De enige bron die wel in het Zweedse Wikipedia-artikel vermeld staat ontbreekt dan weer in het nl-wiki artikel terwijl dat een online beschikbare bron is. - Robotje (overleg) 26 mei 2018 09:23 (CEST)

Robotje

Wanneer je een Wp.. artikel vertaald, ben je dan verplicht dit van de eerste letter tot de laatste letter de doen? Zo ja kan je me dan een linkje geven waar dat staat?

Wanneer je een Wp.. artikel vertaald, is het verboden om andere artikelen over het zelfde onderwerp te lezen? Zo ja kan je me dan een linkje geven waar dat staat?

Groet,Lidewij (overleg) 26 mei 2018 10:45 (CEST)

[Bewerkingsconflict]

Beste Robotje:

1. Ik heb niets aangegeven, dat doet Wikipedia zelf.
2. Daarnaast heb ik de tekst naast deze bronnen gelegd, NF en DBL hebben bijna altijd de zelfde info en opbouw, en dus heb ik vanuit deze bronnen de tekst aangepast.
3. De zin die ik wegliet, is kenmerkend voor deze oudere bronnen. Die zijn vooral lovend en niet neutraal (naar mijn idee)
4. "Arkivarie vid kultusministeriet" staat in de originele tekst ook aangegeven in kleine letter, en dat heb ik dus niet opgemerkt. Dat had natuurlijk wel met een c gemoeten. (dank voor je altijd weer oplettende oog) Ik zal dit over twee weken aanpassen.
5. Ik schreef "onder andere" daar hij meerdere werken heeft uitgegeven
6. Dat ik die bron juist weg had gelaten is dus juist omdat die in het vertaalde artikel al was opgenomen. Deze kon je terugvinden via de link in het bewerkingscommentaar. Wederom, NF en DBL geven de zelfde info. Ik zal deze bron over twee weken alsnog toevoegen.
7. Kortom: Ik vertaalde het Zweedse artikel, en voegde de links naar de deense werken toe die ik heb doorgelezen die zowel bron als verdere naslag dienen.

Ik kan dit pas over twee weken aanpassen daar ik aan mijn limiet zit. Kind regards,   Rodejong   ^💬 Talk ^✉️ Email  ^📝 Edits  ^👀 Auth  🕘 →  26 mei 2018 11:02 (CEST)

Correctie: Blijkbaar is de limiet verhoogd. Dus zal ik dat direct aanpassen.  Kind regards,   Rodejong   ^💬 Talk ^✉️ Email  ^📝 Edits  ^👀 Auth  🕘 →  26 mei 2018 11:32 (CEST)  Uitgevoerd

@Lidewij C J., als ik een contract zie waarbij wordt aangegeven dat het een vertaling is, dan verwacht ik dat alles vertaald is en dat er dus niet stukken ontbreken in de vertaling. Als aangegeven wordt dat het gaat om een uitgebreide samenvatting die gebaseerd is op een tekst in een andere taal dan weet ik dat er zaken kunnen ontbreken. Het gaat er dus om dat er bij de omschrijving geen verkeerde voorstelling van zaken wordt gegeven. Als aangegeven wordt dat het een vertaling is, en je hebt zelf niet de oorspronkelijke tekst geschreven en weet ook niet hoe die tekst tot stand gekomen is, kun je zelf natuurlijk geen bronnen toevoegen in de vertaling. Het wordt natuurlijk wat anders als je na de vertaling de tekst gaat aanvullen en zo.- Robotje (overleg) 26 mei 2018 13:16 (CEST)

Robotje, ik zie geen linkjes, dus we hebben te maken met jou mening. Jou verwachtingen in deze mening zullen, bij andere van dit soort vertalingen uit Wp.. op deze site, merendeel niet uitkomen. Maar Robotje, ik heb ook een mening en die is, dat jij al vast gaat zoeken om een weg te vinden om bij deze gebruiker een niet-pluis rookwolk te plaatsen. (en dat lukte je maar al te vaak op deze manier, andere gebruikers masseren) Verborgen-agenda noem ik dat. Groet, Lidewij (overleg) 26 mei 2018 14:56 (CEST)

@Rodejong, als je een Beta-functie gebruikt om een artikel te vertalen en je besluit je niet te beperken tot het vertalen, is het de volgende keer beter om dat ook in de bewerkingssamenvatting van een nul-edit of zo duidelijk te maken. Zo voorkom je dat de lezer op het verkeerde been wordt gezet omdat jij de vertaal functionaliteit gebruikt maar zaken onvertaald laat en en passant ook informatie toevoegt die los staat van het vertalen. - Robotje (overleg) 26 mei 2018 13:16 (CEST)

Hoi Robotje, volgens mij interpreteer je een aantal zaken niet correct. Allereerst is een wikipedia-artikel vanzelfsprekend geen contract of iets dergelijks. Voor een juiste naleving van de CC-licentie gebruikt op wikipedia is het ook noodzakelijk om te vermelden wanneer (een deel van) een tekst het resultaat is van bv een vertaling. De vertaalmodule doet dit inderdaad automatisch met de melding 'Gemaakt door het vertalen van de pagina XXX'. Het bevreemdt me dat je denkt dat binnen de wikirichtlijnen dan sprake is van de verplichting om de oorspronkelijke tekst van van de eerste tot de laatste letter te vertalen. Ik denk dat - hoewel de melding in de bewerkingssamenvatting op zich al voldoende is - Rodejong als aanmaker van het artikel e.e.a. nog duidelijker verantwoord heeft via de vermelding (bij de appendix) dat een de tekst 'volledig of gedeeltelijk afkomstig is van de Zweedse wikipedia' Het verbaast me daarnaast dat je ook stelt dat het aan te raden is om specifiek te vermelden dat daarna gekozen is voor uitbreiding en aanvulling van het artikel. Maar daar heb je misschien je specifieke redenen voor. Er lijkt mij totaal geen sprake van te zijn dat deze gebruiker - of andere wikipedianen die de vertaaltool gebruiken - hiermee lezers op het verkeerde been zetten door te impliceren dat zij altijd de volledige tekst van eerste tot laatste letter vertalen. Maar misschien wil je er energie insteken om ervoor te zorgen dat bij de vertaaltool in het Nederlands in het vervolg expliciet in de automatische bewerkingssamenvatting ook vermeld wordt dat een tekst geheel dan wel gedeeltelijk vertaald is? Als dit bij jou iedere keer ene dergelijke verwarring meebrengt dan is dat misschien een goed idee? Ecritures (overleg) 26 mei 2018 18:49 (CEST)

Hoi Rodejong, bij de Regblok pagina schreef je vandaag [1] "aDie artikelen zijn van jaren geleden (nog voor de Arbcom deze maatregel oplegde)." Feit is dat de arbcom uitspraak op 3 jan. 2012 was ([2]) terwijl je dat 'artikel' over dat schilderij pas op 30 sept. 2016 aanmaakte en in ongeveer dezelfde periode speelde ook de kwaliteitsproblemen bij het artikel over Bech. Dat is dus bijna 5 jaar na de uitspraak van de arbcom. - Robotje (overleg) 26 mei 2018 14:26 (CEST)

Hmm... Je hebt gelijk. In gedachten was ik bij de verhoging van het limiet in 2016, en dacht ik dat je het over Zahrtmann had. Maar goed. Nogmaals... jaren geleden dus!.  Kind regards,   Rodejong   ^💬 Talk ^✉️ Email  ^📝 Edits  ^👀 Auth  🕘 →  26 mei 2018 14:46 (CEST)

Oudste mensen

Goedemiddag, bij stelling 3 zie ik een tegenstrijdigheid tussen de stem die je uitbracht en de toelichting die je erbij gaf. Bob.v.R (overleg) 28 mei 2018 16:01 (CEST)

Bedankt voor je oplettendheid.  Kind regards,   Rodejong   ^💬 Talk ^✉️ Email  ^📝 Edits  ^👀 Auth  🕘 →  28 mei 2018 16:04 (CEST)

Gebruikersruimte derden

Staat daar iets in dat niet in orde is attendeer de betrokkenen daar dan op via hun overlegpagina alstublieft. MoiraMoira _overleg 1 jun 2018 10:12 (CEST)

verplaatst overleg Waarom draait u mijn bewerking terug?  Kind regards,   Rodejong   ^💬 Talk ^✉️ Email  ^📝 Edits  ^👀 Auth  🕘 →  1 jun 2018 10:12 (CEST)

Zie hierboven. U kreeg al telkens filtermeldingen ook voordat u wilde opslaan dat dat niet de bedoeling is. MoiraMoira _overleg 1 jun 2018 10:15 (CEST)

Ik ben bezig met het opruimen van LintErrors. Dat zijn bewerkingen die Romaine ook doet, dus ik zie niet in dat dat teruggedraaid moet worden. Kind regards,   Rodejong   ^💬 Talk ^✉️ Email  ^📝 Edits  ^👀 Auth  🕘 →  1 jun 2018 10:13 (CEST)

U kunt goed overdrijven. "Telkens"! Ik heb 1 filtermelding gekregen. Maar dit zijn gewoon onderhoudsbewerkingen, dus niets mis mee. Kind regards,   Rodejong   ^💬 Talk ^✉️ Email  ^📝 Edits  ^👀 Auth  🕘 →  1 jun 2018 10:17 (CEST)

Doe dat alstublieft niet meer op pagina's van anderen. MoiraMoira _overleg 1 jun 2018 10:47 (CEST)

Beste Gebruiker:MoiraMoira: Ik maak onderhoudsbewerkingen. Romaine doet ook onderhoudsbewerkingen op andere onderpagina's in de gebruikersruimte. U gaat nu een bewerkingsconflict aan over iets dat niet controversieel is. Stop daar alstublieft mee! Ik verwijder enkel Lint errors!  Kind regards,   Rodejong   ^💬 Talk ^✉️ Email  ^📝 Edits  ^👀 Auth  🕘 →  1 jun 2018 10:51 (CEST)

Nu krijgen zie bijvoorbeeld hier als u het op overlegpagina's doet mensen zomaar een melding dat u daar iets botmatigs onhelders deed. Dat geeft nodeloos irritatie en is niet de bedoeling. MoiraMoira _overleg 1 jun 2018 11:18 (CEST)

(Na BWC) @Rodejong, ik zie vooral BDijkstra gewoonlijk lint errors af handelen. Misschien even met hem overleggen waarom dat wel gedoogd/geaccepteerd wordt? Misschien is de gangbare werkwijze dat dergelijke zaken afgehandeld worden met een bot? (Dat is vooral een vraag aan @MoiraMoira:), Ecritures (overleg) 1 jun 2018 11:19 (CEST)

Kan botmatig en handmatig maar in beide gevallen is het raadzaam om het niet in andermans gebruikersruimten te doen . MoiraMoira _overleg 1 jun 2018 11:26 (CEST)

Ik doe al maanden lang deze bewerkingen op de Deense Wiki. Deze bewerkingen zijn nodig (Zie TechNews). Ik heb mijn bewerkingscommentaar inmiddels aangepast naar [ Onderhoudsbewerking: Lint errors: Bogus file option ] zodat ze kunnen zien waarom ik deze bewerkingen doe. Ik ga er vanuit dat u niet nogmaals deze bewerkingen terugdraait. Misschien dat u zich eerst even had kunnen inlezen voordat u mijn bewerkingen terugdraaide?  Kind regards,   Rodejong   ^💬 Talk ^✉️ Email  ^📝 Edits  ^👀 Auth  🕘 →  1 jun 2018 11:32 (CEST)

Dat u ze daar de komende zes maanden niet meer kunt doen omdat u daar problemen veroorzaakte betekent niet dat u mensen nu hier kan lastigvallen ermee. Doe ze *niet* in andermans gebruikers/overlegruimte dus. MoiraMoira _overleg 1 jun 2018 11:39 (CEST)

Dat heeft hele andere redenen. U kunt niet iets verbieden, wat gewoon toegestaan is, en ook door anderen uitgevoerd wordt. Was dat nu voor onzin?  Kind regards,   Rodejong   ^💬 Talk ^✉️ Email  ^📝 Edits  ^👀 Auth  🕘 →  1 jun 2018 11:41 (CEST)

Het zijn botmatige bewerkingen die u handmatig doet. Dat op zich kan wel als u maar uitlegt waar u mee bezig bent en niet zomaar zaken gaat wijzigen in andermans gebruikersruimte zonder ze te vragen of dat in orde is op hun overlegpagina. Respecteer andere gebruikers alstublieft. MoiraMoira _overleg 1 jun 2018 11:44 (CEST)

In mijn bewerkingscommentaar leg ik uit wat ik doe. Voor dit soort bewerkingen wordt nooit toestemming gevraagd - zie Romaines bijdragen bijvoorbeeld.  Kind regards,   Rodejong   ^💬 Talk ^✉️ Email  ^📝 Edits  ^👀 Auth  🕘 →  1 jun 2018 11:47 (CEST)

@MoiraMoira: ik denk dat hier sprake is van miscommunicatie. Een aantal gebruikers waar onder Rodejong zijn Speciaal:LintErrors/bogus-image-options aan het opruimen. Dat is goed werk dat helaas niet altijd met een robot kan worden gedaan. Ga hier aub uit van goede wil en introduceer aub geen nieuwe errors. Dank je wel. Multichill (overleg) 1 jun 2018 11:50 (CEST)

Dat begrijp ik Multichill. En daar gaat het ook niet om. Het gaat er om dat Rodejong dit doet in gebruikersruimten. @Rodejong Denkt u dat een gebruiker het leuk vindt zoals u nu weer hier op diens overlegpagina doet zomaar een totaal onheldere wijziging in een overlegpagina te zien en daar dan ook nog een melding van te krijgen dat u hem een bericht heeft gestuurd? Of dat alle andere gebruikers die in contact staan met hem het waarderen om een valse melding te krijgen op hun volglijst? MoiraMoira _overleg 1 jun 2018 11:52 (CEST)

MoiraMoira: Of iets leuk is of niet doet niet ter zake. Dit is het opruimen van systeemfouten. Ik zal ze als "klein" markeren zodat ze geen medlingen krijgen.  Kind regards,   Rodejong   ^💬 Talk ^✉️ Email  ^📝 Edits  ^👀 Auth  🕘 →  1 jun 2018 11:56 (CEST)

Of u het nu als klein markeert of niet, de gebruikers vragen hier niet om in hun eigen ruimte én zoals nu hier weer - alle collega's krijgen een valse melding op hun volglijst . MoiraMoira _overleg 1 jun 2018 12:05 (CEST)

Kunt u zich niet gewoon neerleggen bij het feit dat u hier geen gelijk heeft? Systeemopruiming gaat altijd voor voor het "niet prettig vinden"  Kind regards,   Rodejong   ^💬 Talk ^✉️ Email  ^📝 Edits  ^👀 Auth  🕘 →  1 jun 2018 12:08 (CEST)

Ik probeer u uit te leggen hoe u het beter wel kan doen op pagina's in de gebruikersruimte, dus vragen of u het mag doen en wat u wilt doen op de overlegpagina en pas dan handelen. Dat voorkomt irritatie bij sommige gebruikers en bij mensen die de overlegpagina van die gebruiker op hun volglijst hebben. Het is aan u om dat te begrijpen en er naar te willen handelen. Ik hoop op uw begrip en inzicht. MoiraMoira _overleg 1 jun 2018 14:09 (CEST)

Dat is geen verplichting. Ik geef duidelijk aan in de commentaarregel wat ik doe, en dat kunnen ze dan nakijken. Met "k" (of kleine bewerking) krijgen ze geen melding (vernam ik van Multichill).

Dat is het laatste wat ik hierover te zeggen heb.  Kind regards,   Rodejong   ^💬 Talk ^✉️ Email  ^📝 Edits  ^👀 Auth  🕘 →  1 jun 2018 14:13 (CEST)

Vertaling Bautastein

Goedemorgen Rodejong, de Nederlandse vertaling van Bautastein staat klaar ter verdere verwerking onder "Wikipedia:Educatieprogramma/ITV Hogeschool voor Tolken en Vertalers/Bautastein". Let op: Er komt een woord voor wat ik niet kon vertalen. In de zin: ...Andere leiten es von bautaðar, dem Genitiv von bautaðr „Stoßer“, „Schäger“ (= gewaltiger Kriegsmann) ab. Voor het zelfstandig naamwoord "Schäger" heb ik geen vertaling kunnen vinden. Navraag bij Duitse collega’s en zoeken op het internet heeft ook niets opgeleverd. Waarschijnlijk is het een Oud-Duits woord. HenJo59 (overleg) 1 jun 2018 11:20 (CEST)

@HenJo59: Dank u wel ik ga er komende week mee aan de slag.  Kind regards,   Rodejong   ^💬 Talk ^✉️ Email  ^📝 Edits  ^👀 Auth  🕘 →  1 jun 2018 11:34 (CEST)

Bewerken andermans GP, commentaar, kladblok, etc.

Hoi Rodejong, graag nu stoppen met edits als deze, deze en deze. - Robotje (overleg) 1 jun 2018 12:37 (CEST)

@Robotje: zie discussie hier boven. Hier is niets mis mee. Multichill (overleg) 1 jun 2018 12:42 (CEST)

Uit die discussie blijkt niet dat de edits van Rodejong niet mis is. Graag dus mee stoppen. - Robotje (overleg) 1 jun 2018 12:43 (CEST)

Mosterd na de maaltijd Robotje. Dit zijn noodzakelijke edits die voor juli 2018 gedaan moeten worden.  Kind regards,   Rodejong   ^💬 Talk ^✉️ Email  ^📝 Edits  ^👀 Auth  🕘 →  1 jun 2018 12:44 (CEST)

Wie heeft bepaald dat dat voor die datum gedaan moet zijn? - Robotje (overleg) 1 jun 2018 12:45 (CEST)

• [Gebruiker:Rodejong/Nieuwsbrieven/TECHNIEUWS#Tech_News:_2017-18 zie hier]  Kind regards,   Rodejong   ^💬 Talk ^✉️ Email  ^📝 Edits  ^👀 Auth  🕘 →  1 jun 2018 12:46 (CEST)

Die link werkt niet. Stop eerst eens en als je geen werkende link kunt geven, geef dan maar een citaat waar je op doelt waarin staat dat het voor juli 2018 gedaan moeten worden. - Robotje (overleg) 1 jun 2018 12:51 (CEST)

• Gebruiker:Rodejong/Nieuwsbrieven/TECHNIEUWS#Tech_News:_2017-18: All wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in all namespaces will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 2 May. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Wikibooks wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in the main namespace will switch on 9 May. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. [3][4][5]

Dat staat dus helemaal niet in Gebruiker:Rodejong/Nieuwsbrieven/TECHNIEUWS#Tech_News:_2017-18. Begrijp je nu dat het beter is om eerst te overleggen? Geef ook eens aan hoe je erbij komt dat een dubbel pipe symbool vervangen moet worden door een enkele? - Robotje (overleg) 1 jun 2018 12:57 (CEST)

Het staat in 2018-18. Dat weet je best. En mensen van wie de gebruikers- of overlegpagina bewerkt wordt kunnen zo nodig prima voor zichzelf opkomen. Bemoei je alsjeblieft met je eigen zaken. Jeroen N (overleg) 1 jun 2018 12:59 (CEST)

Nee dat weet ik niet. Ik heb gekeken waar Rodejong naar linkte en daar stond dat niet. En nu terug naar de vraag over dat dubbele pipe symbool. Waar staat dat dan? - Robotje (overleg) 1 jun 2018 13:01 (CEST)

Inderdaad. Een typo! Sjonge, moet dan werkelijk alles voor je voorgekauwd worden? Gebruiker:Rodejong/Nieuwsbrieven/TECHNIEUWS#Tech_News:_2017-18  Kind regards,   Rodejong   ^💬 Talk ^✉️ Email  ^📝 Edits  ^👀 Auth  🕘 →  1 jun 2018 13:02 (CEST)

De eerste link werkte niet, en de tweede wel maar ging dus over wat anders. Alles voorkauwen hoeft niet, wel graag een uitleg hoe dat dan b.v. zit met dat pipe symbool. - Robotje (overleg) 1 jun 2018 13:04 (CEST)

Dat kun je nalezen in Technews! Jij kannamelijk zeer goed engelstalige tekst lezen.  Kind regards,   Rodejong   ^💬 Talk ^✉️ Email  ^📝 Edits  ^👀 Auth  🕘 →  1 jun 2018 13:08 (CEST)

Dat is het punt juist. Ik kan volgens mij best wel dat soort engelstalige tekst lezen maar ook hier staat niets over dat pipe symbool. Op Technews vind ik dat dus niet en jij kunt het blijkbaar ook niet vinden. Stoppen dus! - Robotje (overleg) 1 jun 2018 13:13 (CEST)

• Speciaal:LintErrors/bogus-image-options! Daar staan alle fouten opgesomd. Nu hou je op met je gedram!  Kind regards,   Rodejong   ^💬 Talk ^✉️ Email  ^📝 Edits  ^👀 Auth  🕘 →  1 jun 2018 13:22 (CEST)

Ik denk dat we het er wel over eens kunnen zijn dat informatie over dat dubbele pipe symbool dus dus niet op Technews stond. Op de nu door je opgegeven pagina staan weliswaar lint fouten, maar er staat niet bij dat het gaat over de fouten die voor juli 2018 opgelost moeten zijn. Er zijn ook pagina's met problemen redirects naar redirects en zo, maar die hoeven toch ook niet voor juli 2018 opgelost te zijn. Het bestaan van een pagina met foutmeldingen zegt dus nog niets. Graag nu toch echt even stoppen met dat soort wijzigingen in andersmans overleg/kladblok/GP/etc. - Robotje (overleg) 1 jun 2018 13:30 (CEST)

Speciaal:LintErrors/bogus-image-options geeft alle fouten aan die door Tidy worden verborgen. Dat het er niet letterlijk voor iedere fout in Technews staat, betekent niet dat die fouten daar niet onder vallen. Nu stop je met je gedram en het je dommer voordoen dan je bent.  Kind regards,   Rodejong   ^💬 Talk ^✉️ Email  ^📝 Edits  ^👀 Auth  🕘 →  1 jun 2018 13:35 (CEST)

Leg dan eens uit hoe je erbij komt om te schrijven "Speciaal:LintErrors/bogus-image-options geeft alle fouten aan die door Tidy worden verborgen." en bij je blokaanvraag te beweren [6] "Dit is echter noodzakelijk daar volgende maand Tidy wordt verwijdert van Mediawiki. Hiermee worden alle fouten, die nu door Tidy worden verborgen, zichtbaar." Zullen we afspreken dat je alle je correcties van andermans commentaar/GP/etc. wat na juli 2018 toch niet naar boven komt terugdraait omdat je dat gedaan hebt op basis van een aanname die je, ondanks aandringen, blijkbaar niet kunt onderbouwen. - Robotje (overleg) 1 jun 2018 14:43 (CEST)

Als je alle discussies volgt, en de Technews berichten, dan weet je dat. Ik zou niet 1,2,3 kunnen aanwijzen waar ik het preciesgelezen heb, daar dit op diverse projecten besproken wordt. Dus of ik het op de ENWP, DAWP, NLWPof op MediaWiki gelezen heb kan ik je niet zeggen, en ga ik ook niet voor je uitzoeken. Duidelijk is dat mijn bewerkingen als niet controversieel worden aangemerkt door verschillende gebruikers, alsook door Ecritures op RegBlok. Verder is het logisch, dat wanneer Tidy verdwijnt, (die fouten verbergt) dat die fouten op Speciaal:LintErrors dan niet meer verborgen worden, maar zichtbaar worden. Dat is logisch. Dit is het laatste wat ik er over te zeggen heb. Alle verdere commentaren van je worden genegeerd.  Kind regards,   Rodejong   ^💬 Talk ^✉️ Email  ^📝 Edits  ^👀 Auth  🕘 →  1 jun 2018 14:47 (CEST)

Niemand is in staat om alle discussies te volgen en stellen dat ik het wel zou weten als ik alle discussies gevolgd zou hebben is zomaar een slag in de lucht. Ik weet wel dat lang niet alle issues die volgens die lintlijst door lint gevonden zijn ook opgesomd staan bij Parsing/Replacing Tidy#Detailed information about what to fix als punten die opgelost moeten worden i.v.m. de overstap. Het zou toch wel heel vreemd zijn dat als ze bij Mediawiki met een mooie lijst precies aangeven wat er hersteld dient te worden als je stopt met Tidy maar dat daar een heleboel zaken ontbreken. De Linter categorie 'bogus-image-options' komt op die mediawiki-pagina dan ook totaal niet voor. Ik heb in mijn leven heel wat met parsers en lint gewerkt (maar dan vooral buiten Wikipedia) en weet daarvan dat niet alles want lint (of andere code-checkers) opgemerkt wordt zorgt voor fouten. Jouw stelling dat alles wat door lint gevonden wordt en niet voor juli 2018 hersteld tot problemen leidt, komt dat ook niet overtuigend over. Dat je niet ingaat op mijn voorstel geeft wel aan dat je blijkbaar niet zo zeker bent als je doet voorkomen. - Robotje (overleg) 1 jun 2018 15:09 (CEST)

Hoi Robotje, ik denk dat het een goede zaak is om dit onderwerp (of Rodejong in het bijzonder) nu even los te laten: dit is mijns inziens de beste manier om dit verhitte gesprek niet verder te laten escaleren. Misschien is een overleg met meerderen (zoals ook JeroenN en/of Multichill) effectiever om jouw wantrouwen tegen deze bewerkingen weg te nemen? Ik associeer 'lint errors' vooral met mijn wasdroger, dus technisch inhoudelijk kan ik je niet van dienst zijn. Ecritures (overleg) 1 jun 2018 15:34 (CEST)

Vertaling Gamleborg

Goedemiddag Rodejong, Ik heb de vertaling klaargezet in "Wikipedia:Educatieprogramma/ITV Hogeschool voor Tolken en Vertalers/GAMLEBORG". In dit artikel heb ik ervoor gekozen steeds het woord burcht te gebruiken en geen synoniemen. Dit omdat het woord burcht dmv een link naar een uitgebreide uitleg gaat. Ik laat het aan jou over om eventueel (om niet steeds hetzelfde woord te gebruiken) met synoniemen te werken. HenJo59 (overleg) 1 jun 2018 13:21 (CEST)

Dank je wel. Ik ga er volgende week mee aan de gang.  Kind regards,   Rodejong   ^💬 Talk ^✉️ Email  ^📝 Edits  ^👀 Auth  🕘 →  1 jun 2018 13:23 (CEST)

Schending auteursrechten van je collega's

Hoi Rodejong, je hebt gisteren dit artikel aangemaakt als zijnde jouw vertaling van het Duitse Wikipedia-artikel. Uit analyse van de brontekst wordt al snel duidelijk dat je bijna alles van het toen al bestaande Nederlandse artikel overgenomen hebt (dat vertaald was vanuit datzelfde Duitse artikel en aangevuld). Daarbij deed je over het algemeen slechts minieme aanpassingen zoals een iets andere wikificering of een spatie erbij. Op een vertaling zit ook auteursrechten en door niet aan te geven dat het ging om een vertaling die anderen al gemaakt hadden schend je die auteursrechten. Dit is onacceptabel gedrag. Je bent in het verleden al vaker betrapt op het schenden van auteursrechten en nu val je dus in herhaling. Stop daar toch eens mee. - Robotje (overleg) 8 jun 2018 10:38 (CEST)

Robotje, Ik werk mee aan het vertaalprogramma. Henjo vertaalt, ik Wikificeer. Ik maakte een fout bij gebruik van het vertaaltooltje, waarmee ik zelf de vertaling van Henjo controleer. Doordat ik niet de titel aangepast had werd deze opgeslagen als Bautastein ipv Bautasteen, (zoals je ook kunt zien op WP:Verplaatsen) Normaliter zou de vertaaltool Bautasteen hebben overgeschreven, nu moest ik die overkopieren. Ik maak geen auteursrechtenschending, als jij van mening bent dat ik dat wel doe, dan mag je bij deze een Regblok aanmaken. Maar dat doe je niet, want je weet dat het zo niet is. Stop dus met het zoeken naar redenen waarvoor je me een blok kunt aansmeren.  Kind regards,   Rodejong   ^💬 Talk ^✉️ Email  ^📝 Edits  ^👀 Auth  🕘 →  8 jun 2018 11:05 (CEST)

Overigens ... over welke auteursrechtenschendingen heb je het eigenlijk?  Kind regards,   Rodejong   ^💬 Talk ^✉️ Email  ^📝 Edits  ^👀 Auth  🕘 →  8 jun 2018 11:10 (CEST)

Lees eerst eens en stel dan je vraag. Ik schreef hierboven al "Op een vertaling zit ook auteursrechten en door niet aan te geven dat het ging om een vertaling die anderen al gemaakt hadden schend je die auteursrechten." Dat zijn dus de auteursrechten waar ik het over had. - Robotje (overleg) 8 jun 2018 11:14 (CEST)

@Robotje: Je weet donders goed dat ik het heb over de zin: Je bent in het verleden al vaker betrapt op het schenden van auteursrechten. Welke schendingen bedoel je?  Kind regards,   Rodejong   ^💬 Talk ^✉️ Email  ^📝 Edits  ^👀 Auth  🕘 →  8 jun 2018 11:16 (CEST)

Nee, ik weet niet donders goed dat jij het had over de eerdere schendingen. Ik ga niet al die gevallen opzoeken, maar ik herinner me meerdere zaken zoals die afbeelding van een maquette die jij gemaakt zou hebben maar wat dus helemaal niet het geval was, een andere met nijntje en zo nog veel meer. Maar nu terug naar recente schending van gisteren. 1 Hoe kan een lezer nu aan deze pagina zien dat Henjo de vertaler was? Toch niet uit de tekst van die pagina en ook nietuit de bewerkingssamenvattingen. Bovendien ben je niet uitgegaan van de vertaling die gebruiker HenJo59 op 1 juni 2018 op nl-wiki plaatste maar de laatste versie waar ook een andere wikipediaan al aan gewerkt had. - Robotje (overleg) 8 jun 2018 11:31 (CEST)

Als je de bewerkingsgeschiedenis ziet, dan is Henjo, de vertaler, de ander deed de initiële wikificering, en ik heb een vernieuwde versie daaroverheen gezet. Normaliter zou ik die wikificering zelf gedaan hebben, als die ander mij niet voor was geweest. Ik kan geen twee geschiedenissen over elkaar heen zetten, dat kunnen enkel administratoren. Maar zoals uit het verplaatsverzoek blijkt, zegt bdijkstra dat ik het gewoon over de bestaande tekst heen kon zetten. Dat is het laatste wat ik er over te zeggen heb.

Over auteursrechtenschendingen, je komt met iets van vele jaren geleden (niet tekst maar afbeeldingen) waar ik toen nog geen inzicht en begrip van had. Is een beetje kinderachtig om dat aan te voeren alsof ik het niet nauw neem met de auteursrechtenschendingen - sterker nog, ik heb op de Deense Wiki juist werk gemaakt om copyvio op te ruimen en op te sporen.

Ook dit is het laatste wat ik daarover te zeggen heb.

Het lijkt mij beter dat je zelf weer gaat concentreren op het schrijven van artikelen. We missen er nog een hele boel. Das beter dan mijn tijd te lopen verspillen.  Kind regards,   Rodejong   ^💬 Talk ^✉️ Email  ^📝 Edits  ^👀 Auth  🕘 →  8 jun 2018 11:39 (CEST)

107.84%

We missen nog -156725 artikelen tot artikel nummer 2.000.000. Ga snel schrijven ipv. mij lastig te vallen met je geëmmer.

Even zakelijk: de vermelding waar Robotje naar vraagt wordt door de vertaaltool geleverd in de eerste bewerkingssamenvatting. Aangaande die vraag van Robot wordt dus ten onrechte gemeld dat er sprake is van auteursrechtenschending. Echter, in de reactie noem je (@Rodejong) dat dit een vertaling is in het kader van het vertaalproject van de ITV Hogeschool. Door op deze wijze (via de vertaaltool blijkbaar) de vertaling in de hoofdnaamruimte te zetten verdwijnt de vertaling (de bewerkingen) die Henjo59 heeft gemaakt. (En - zoals ik in de geschiedenis van die pagina las - ook die van SvenDK). Het is de bedoeling dat je een vertaalde tekst uit de ruimte van het Educatieprogramma verplaatst naar de hoofdnaamruimte dmv titel wijzigen zodat alle oorspronkelijke bewerkingen zichtbaar blijven. Het is zaak z.s.m. het verdwijnen van de bewerkingsgeschiedenis van dit artikel te rectificeren. Mocht je daarbij ondersteuning nodig hebben dan help ik graag. Ecritures (overleg) 8 jun 2018 11:38 (CEST)

@Ecritures: - Dat is ook mijn normale gang van werken: Zie Wikipedia:Educatieprogramma/ITV Hogeschool voor Tolken en Vertalers/GAMLEBORG. Maar zoals hierboven uitgelegd ging het gisteren faut bij het opslaan van de pagina waardoor ik ineens twee pagina's had.  Kind regards,   Rodejong   ^💬 Talk ^✉️ Email  ^📝 Edits  ^👀 Auth  🕘 →  8 jun 2018 11:41 (CEST)

Hoi Ecritures, om te beginnen is mijn gebruikersnaam Robotje. Rodejong is recentelijk al de fout in gegaan omdat hij die tool gebruikte en hij wist dus dat als hij die tool gebruikt er een standaard tekst komt. Het is een kleine moeite om meteen daarna in een nul-edit of zo, in de bewerkingssamenvatting informatie te zetten die je in eerste instantie had behoren te geven. Dan staat dat dus met een minieme vertraging alsnog in de geschiedenis van de pagina. Die standaard tekst ontslaat hem natuurlijk niet van de noodzaak om duidelijkheid te verschaffen over hoe het werkelijk zit met de vertaling. Ecritures, doe me een lol en klik eens op deze link. Daar staat toch niets over de wikipedianen op nl-wiki die al eerder aan die tekst gewerkt hebben en al helemaal niet dat het vertaalwerk gedaan werd door Henjo. Of zie ik wat over het hoofd? - Robotje (overleg) 8 jun 2018 11:50 (CEST)

Nogmaals, zie WP:Verplaatsen waar ik juist aangeef dat het fout ging bij het opslaan, doordat ik de titel fout had. Hou nu eens op met spijkers op laag water zoeken.  Kind regards,   Rodejong   ^💬 Talk ^✉️ Email  ^📝 Edits  ^👀 Auth  🕘 →  8 jun 2018 11:54 (CEST)

Binnenkort worden oude edits op 'WP:Verplaatsen' weer gearchiveerd en dan is die tekst daar voor een niet-wikipediaan niet of nauwelijks terug te vinden. Uit de combinatie van de tekst van een pagina in de hoofdnaamruimte en de bewerkingsgeschiedenis van die pagina hoort duidelijk te worden hoe het zit met de auteurs. Als iemand op deze link klikt blijkt er maar 1 bewerker te zijn en als je een willekeurige pagina uit die bewerkingsgeschiedenis pakt wordt niet duidelijk dat Henjo de vertaling deed, dus wordt ten onrechte gedaan alsof jij die vertaling deed want bij de eerste versie staat met jouw gebruiksnaam als bewerker "Gemaakt door het vertalen van de pagina ..." - Robotje (overleg) 8 jun 2018 12:02 (CEST)

Zucht! Ik kan geen versies oververplaatsen. Dus wat verwacht je nu van mij? Dat ik kan toveren of zo? Ga zelf artikelen schrijven aub, laat zien hoe het moet, in plaats van anderen hun tijd te verspelen.  Kind regards,   Rodejong   ^💬 Talk ^✉️ Email  ^📝 Edits  ^👀 Auth  🕘 →  8 jun 2018 12:05 (CEST)

(Na BWC) @Robotje: Excuses, ik zie dat ik per ongeluk in de tweede vermelding van je naam de 'je' heb weggelaten. Dat gebeurt me eigenlijk zelden dat ik dergelijke schrijffouten bij een wikinaam maak. Gezien de informatie op WP:verplaatsen - die mij was ontschoten - is het probleem met de bewerkingsgeschiedenis van de twee collega's in het juiste artikel al opgelost. Blijkt over jouw opmerking over de juiste vermelding van de oorspronkelijkebronverwijzing. De vertaaltool die ongelukkigerwijs gebruikt werd, produceert een automatisch vermelding bij vertaling van een artikel. Deze verwijzing in de bewerkingssamenvatting naar (normalerwijs) de oorspronkelijke brontekst in de brontaal is voldoende om ervoor te zorgen dat de oorspronkelijke auteurs op de juiste wijze vermeld worden. Het voegt mijns inziens weinig (of niets) toe aan de vermelding om daar in een null edit of iets dergelijks iets anders van te maken. Het is zeker niet okay om dan te verwijzen naar het artikel zoals dat door Henjo59 en SvenDK is gecreëerd omdat dan weer de vermelding van het oorspronkelijke artikel ontbreekt. Aangezien in het huidige artikel de bewerkingsgeschiedenis compleet is én er via het sjabloon 'bronvermelding anderstalige wikipedia' ook de schrijvers van het oorspronkelijke artikel vindbaar zijn lijkt mij de situatie opgelost (onder voorwaarde dat de vertaaltool nooit en te nimmer meer voor deze werkzaamheden wordt ingezet). Of zie jij het anders? Groet, Ecritures (overleg) 8 jun 2018 12:19 (CEST)

Nee, Robotje blijft doorzeuren over Bautastein die nu een redirect is! Hij moet daarmee gewoon ophouden! ~ Zoals je zegt, was dat gisteren al opgelost, dus heel deze discussie is nutteloos, en tijdverspilling.  Kind regards,   Rodejong   ^💬 Talk ^✉️ Email  ^📝 Edits  ^👀 Auth  🕘 →  8 jun 2018 12:24 (CEST)

Het minste wat Rodejong zou kunnen doen is alsnog een nul-edit te doen zodat in de geschiedenis van deze pagina alsnog komt te staat dan het bij eerdere versies ging om bijdragen van HenJo59 en SvenDK. Dat had al veel eerder gemoeten dus waarom nog langer wachten? - Robotje (overleg) 8 jun 2018 12:28 (CEST)

Hebben jullie al overwogen de redirect gewoon te verwijderen en opnieuw aan te maken? Die bewerkingsgeschiedenis hoeft immers helemaal niet behouden te blijven. Jeroen N (overleg) 8 jun 2018 12:30 (CEST)

Net gedaan terwijl je dat hier plaatst  Kind regards,   Rodejong   ^💬 Talk ^✉️ Email  ^📝 Edits  ^👀 Auth  🕘 →  8 jun 2018 12:31 (CEST)

Top! Dan kunnen we weer over tot de orde van de dag. Jeroen N (overleg) 8 jun 2018 12:33 (CEST)

Blokaanvraag

Rodejong, ik voel me - als moderator die ook inhoudelijk aan discussie heeft meegedaan - niet in de positie om de blokaanvraag die je zojuist deed in de richting van Robotje af te wijzen. In je bloktitel kies je voor de beschrijving dat Robotje tijd verspilt, maar dergelijke blokverzoeken kosten ook onnodige tijd. Ik begrijp je frustratie; maar laten we de problemen op een andere wijze proberen aan te pakken okay? Zoals gezegd help ik je graag met het vinden van constructieve oplossingen. Groet, Ecritures (overleg) 8 jun 2018 13:00 (CEST)

@Ecritures: Het gaat er mij om dat Robotje stopt met het stalken van mijn edits, en de daarop volgende eindeloze discussies. Maar als jij meent dat het blokverzoek niet gehonoreerd hoeft te worden, mag je m wat mij betreft best afwijzen hoor. Geen probleem, ik hecht iig meer waarde aan jouw oordeel dan aan Robotje, die ik het liefst gewoon niet meer op mijn OP zag!  Kind regards,   Rodejong   ^💬 Talk ^✉️ Email  ^📝 Edits  ^👀 Auth  🕘 →  8 juni 2018 13:03 (CEST)

Lintfouten

Hallo, als je mij het anglicisme wilt vergeven, hierbij een woord van advies. Als je wilt helpen met lintfouten, doe dan eerst de hoofdnaamruimte. Als je je dan toch daarbuiten wilt wagen, doe dan eerst die van hoge prioriteit. Want alleen die zaken die problemen geven met de huidige parser (Remex) hebben hoge prioriteit gekregen. –bdijkstra (overleg) 9 jun 2018 19:39 (CEST)

@Bdijkstra: Ok. Ik zal er naar kijken de komende week. Maar ik weerhoudt me van de hoofdnaamruimte omdat ik slechts 32 artiklen per 2 weken mag editen.  Kind regards,   Rodejong   ^💬 Talk ^✉️ Email  ^📝 Edits  ^👀 Auth  🕘 →  10 jun 2018 13:07 (CEST)

Tirslundstenen

Hallo Rodejong, ik zag dat u een artikel hebt geschreven over Tirslundstenen. Dit artikel is naar mijn mening nu (nog) niet geschikt voor Wikipedia. Het betreft zeer matig vertaalde tekst met stijlfouten, spatiefouten, taalfouten, lidwoordsfouten (het in plaats van de en een missend lidwoord), een foutieve verbuiging van een bijvoeglijk naamwoord, een missend voorzetsel, foutief apostrofgebruik in een meervoud herhaald, terugverwijzing naar iets onbekends (de Vita Harald) en vertaalfouten. Bovendien bevat het vreemde foutieve referenties, de tweede geeft enkel een kaartje met locatie terwijl deze terug zou moeten voeren op de typerende vorm van de tirlundsteen en de vierde zou een datum moeten geven maar er staat enkel een kaal jaartal Het is daarom op de beoordelingslijst geplaatst en daar is ook de mogelijkheid op de geuite bezwaren te reageren. De komende twee weken kan iedereen daar zijn of haar mening geven. Bovendien kan iedereen het artikel in die periode nog verbeteren. Daarna beslist een van de moderatoren op grond van de argumenten op de beoordelingslijst en de richtlijnen of het artikel op Wikipedia kan blijven staan. Meer achtergrondinformatie is te vinden op Waarom staat mijn artikel op de beoordelingslijst, Conventies waaraan artikelen na verloop van tijd (zouden moeten) voldoen, Relevantie van het onderwerp voor Wikipedia. MoiraMoira _overleg 10 jun 2018 20:16 (CEST)

Moira zou beter de referenties duidelijk doorlezen, dan had je gezien dat het niet enkel een kaartje bevat. Daarnaast kan ze zien dat het artikel een vertaling is van de Duitse Wikipedia, en dat Vita Harald daar reeds genoemd is.

Verder moet je ervaren gebruikers niet met standaard teksten aanspreken. Ik weet heus wel waar ik de relevante zaken kan opsnorren.  Kind regards,   Rodejong   ^💬 Talk ^✉️ Email  ^📝 Edits  ^👀 Auth  🕘 →  11 jun 2018 01:52 (CEST)

Hoi Rodejong, met deze edit van je kwam in het artikel te staan dat het ging om een zwerfsteen van roodachtig graniet. Je plaatste daarbij een voetnoot naar een wiki waar blijkbaar zou staan dat het gaat om roodachtig graniet. Kun je een kort citaat geven van een tekst op de pagina van die wiki waaruit dat blijkt? - Robotje (overleg) 11 jun 2018 13:00 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #318

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

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  • Wikidata LGBT group at the Pride march in Paris, June 30th

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  • Edit #700,000,000 happened on June 21th
  • Magnus Manske released a new interface for QuickStatements V2. Among other changes, it now include links to EditGroups, a tool that allows people to discuss about or revert batch edits
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Tech News: 2018-26

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

• PAWS, our JupyterHub system, got an upgrade and a logo. Several bugs should be fixed.

Problems

• When a link text was in italics or had other formatting you could sometimes not edit it in the visual editor. This has now been fixed. [7][8]

Changes later this week

• Content translation users who translate between any two of Arabic, English, French, Japanese and Russian will be asked to be part of a research project. This is to create better tools for translating articles. [9]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 June. It will be on all wikis from 28 June (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 26 June at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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26 jun 2018 01:10 (CEST)

The Signpost: 29 June 2018

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

• From the editor: The Admin Ship is still barely afloat, while a Foundation project risks sinking

• Special report: NPR and AfC – The Marshall Plan: an engagement and a marriage?

• Op-ed: What do admins do?

• Opinion: Google isn't responsible for Wikipedia's mistakes

• News and notes: Money, milestones, and Wikimania

• In the media: Much wikilove from the Mayor of London, less from Paekākāriki or a certain candidate for U.S. Congress

• Discussion report: Deletion, page moves, and an update to the main page

• Featured content: New promotions

• Arbitration report: WWII, UK politics, and a user deCrat'ed

• Traffic report: Endgame

• Technology report: Improvements piled on more improvements

• Gallery: Wiki Loves Africa

• Blog: Wikipedia should be open for editors in Turkey

• Recent research: How censorship can backfire and conversations can go awry

• Humour: Television plot lines

• Wikipedia essays: This month's pick by The Signpost editors

• From the archives: Wolves nip at Wikipedia's heels: A perspective on the cost of paid editing

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Wikidata weekly summary #319

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

• Events
  • Celtic Knot Conference, dedicated to Wikimedia projects and minority languages, July 5-6, in Aberystwyth (Wales). A lot of Wikidata workshops will take place during this event.

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • 4800 Welsh portraits added to Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata, blog post at the National Library of Wales by Jason Evans, National Wikimedian of Wales
  • LIPID MAPS identifiers and endocannabinoids on Wikidata, blog post by Egon Willighagen

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Change for maxlag impacts bots and semi-automated tools
  • The five-thousandth lexeme, about a interjection "jau" in Nynorsk language, has been created
  • The Commons template Wikidata infobox has now passed 1.3 million uses on Commons categories, with plenty more still to come. A new help page gives advice on how to add, extend or improve uses of it, and how to fix data problems.
  • You can discuss the right properties to describe files on Commons, to help moving on with Structured data on Commons
  • Help improving the fight against vandalism with ORES
  • Sixth birthday of Wikidata: it's time to think about what you'd like to organize in your area! There will be a phone call for organizers, and the deadline to request swag is September 7th.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: JMA Seismic Intensity Scale, permanent resident of, auxiliary verb, homograph lexeme
    • External identifiers: École normale alumnus ID, Académie des sciences d'outre-mer member ID, BIU Santé person ID, Medicina author ID, Étonnants voyageurs participant ID, Akadem person ID, GAMECIP platform ID, National Academy of Sciences member ID, EGROKN ID, Behind The Voice Actors franchise ID, archINFORM project ID, Behind The Voice Actors film ID, IGN video game ID, Behind The Voice Actors tv show ID, Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer ID, Classiques des sciences sociales author ID, Norwegian Polar Institute place name ID, Poetry Archive poet ID, cipM poet ID, Poets & Writers author ID, Canadian Encyclopedia article ID, Online Books Page publication ID, Tierstimmenarchiv ID, TDKIV term ID, GeoNLP ID, CNAP artist ID, RYM artist ID, Rendez-vous de l'histoire ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: JMA Magnitude, Coached by, Harmonized System Code, reverse lemma, reference properties, LilyPond notation, valency, section number, propdef, antonym, Central Index Key (CIK), note
    • External identifiers: Flanders Music Centre ID, Île en île ID, Fantastic Fiction ID, mhk object ID, CeBeDem ID, Ricochet ID, Common procurement vocabulary, pixiv ID, NYRB ID, The Paris Review ID, GS1 GPC brick code, Pasteur Institute ID, The Trading Card Database person ID, Legaseriea.it team ID, Deutsche Biographie person ID, Setlist FM artist ID, Setlist FM venue ID, Poetry International Web ID, EuroVoc ID, Språkrådets termwiki ID, Elysee.fr president ID, Reseñas Biográficas (Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional de Chile), abuse filter ID, Herder Encyclopedia author ID, Collège de France professor ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of the birth places of people who have had taxa named after them (source)
    • Space observatories and their namesakes (source)
    • Timeline of computer games (source)
    • List of companies owned by Disney (source)
    • Same gender spouses (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Patents
  • Newest user-scripts: d:User:Husky/ifff-viewer-link.js (shows selected parts of images, according to P2677 qualifiers - for example d:Q17335769#P180.)

• Development
  • Working on prefilling spelling variant of new form representation (phab:T195708)
  • Start breaking down stories in order to implement Senses
  • Finding a better solution for dewiki's Modul:Wikidata isParent (phab:T179155)
  • Adding support for linking to a particular statement (phab:T169224)
  • Implement property scope constraint (phab:T197473)
  • Track maxlag for wikidata on grafana dashboard (phab:T196868)

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: 2018-27

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

Recent changes

• The database for tags will be changed. This will happen on 2 July on French Wikipedia and 9 July on all other wikis. Please report if recent changes get slower or you can't save edits. This could especially affect editors who use the database on ToolForge. [10]

Problems

• Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back. This was because of a database problem. [11]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 3 July at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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3 jul 2018 02:46 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-28

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

• WebM video files have smaller file size but still be of the same quality. Creating WebM files will take longer time. [12]
• The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. This was supposed to already have happened but was delayed. For most wikis this will happen on 9 July. For the rest it will happen on 16 July. [13]
• All wikis now use the Remex parsing library instead of Tidy. This could cause errors. You can help fix the errors. [14]

Problems

• When you rolled back an edit it could get both the Rollback and Undo tags. This has been fixed. [15]
• Rollbacks from autopatrolled users were not marked as patrolled. This has been fixed. [16]

Changes later this week

• When you edit a link in the visual editor there will be two separate buttons to change which page the link goes to (target) or its text (label). [17][18]
• On the mobile version you can find a link to an editor's contributions from their user page. Now this will work even if they haven't created a user page. [19]
• When you edit a discussion on the mobile version you sometimes get your signature automatically added. This will now not happen if you have already added a signature manually. This is to avoid double signatures. [20]
• Structured discussions toolbars will have more style options. [21]
• When you look at Wikimedia code in Gerrit there will be a new interface. It is on by default for new users. This is also true for developers. This is to make it easier to understand what is happening. [22]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 July. It will be on all wikis from 12 July (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 10 July at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Today all administrators can edit CSS and JavaScript for the entire wiki. There will be a new user group for editing CSS and JavaScript. Administrators will no longer automatically be able to do this. This is because it is a security risk when all administrator accounts can edit JavaScript even if they never plan to or do not know how it works. You can read more. [23]
• Page previews will be on by default for new accounts. [24]

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10 jul 2018 01:09 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #320

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Help:Modelling

• Events
  • Past: Celtic Knot Conference, including a Wikidata track, 5-6 July, Aberystwyth (Wales)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Lab: Structured narratives in Wikipedia, São Paulo, August 9th

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Ewan McAndrew publishes case study for teaching data science with Wikidata: see the case study on Commons
  • "Wikidata and GLAM catalogues: a round-up" by Martin Poulter

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Structured Data on Commons: There is a workshop on Commons to identify properties that files will need for statements. You are invited to participate.
  • Querying Wikidata with SPARQL for Absolute Beginners, a new video tutorial by Asaf Bartov
  • Items now contain an average of 10 statements.
  • For the first time Wikidata has less than 2 million empty items.
  • Input for m:Creation of separate user group for editing sitewide CSS/JS is being sought.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Romanization of Belarusian (2007 system), has decorative pattern, floor number, Han character in this lexeme, Japanese pitch accent type, position of accent nucleus, position of devoiced vowel, number of viewers/listeners, signum, research measurement, model year, reference value, lower limit, upper limit
    • External identifiers: mhk object ID, Fantastic Fiction author ID, Île en île author ID, Flanders Music Centre person ID, CeBeDem composer ID, Ricochet author ID, The Paris Review interviewee ID, Whonamedit? doctor ID, Common procurement vocabulary, Pasteur Institute person ID, NYRB contributor ID, GS1 Global Product Classification brick code, The Trading Card Database person ID, Lega Serie A team ID, IPTC Newscode, Poetry International Web poet ID, Setlist FM artist ID, Setlist FM venue ID, Gfycat user ID, pixiv ID, EuroVoc ID, Elysee.fr president ID, Herder Encyclopedia author ID, Biographical Articles of the Library of Congress of Chile, Collège de France professor ID, Language Council of Norways termwiki ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: confers, Narrative role, CJKV variant character, synonym, derived from form, station category, Number of twitter follower, mentioned in work, model year code, peninsula of location, position of nasal sonant, number of people depicted, artist-info artist ID, artist-info curator ID, artist-info location ID, Mormon Literature and Creative Arts Database, The Reptile Database
    • External identifiers: Logicielsmoto identifier, House of Representatives Morocco ID, BIA PSY ID, My Heritage Surname ID, identifiant Inventaire des sanctuaires français, USNPL ID, Guide to Pharmacology Target ID, Historia de la Medicina ID, TasteAtlas ID, GlyphWiki ID, AE member ID, Conseil constitutionnel ID, French Academy in Rome ID, RHE doctor ID, Scottish Poetry Library ID, RHE professor ID, SBN books ID, Australian Poetry Library ID, A Church Near You church ID
  • Deleted properties: GHS hazard statement (P728) + GHS precautionary statements (P940), spectral line (P2224)
  • Query examples:
    • Map of places in the UK starting with "Llan" (source)
    • Number and percentage of articles about female scientists for all Wikipedias (compared to all articles about scientists) (source)
    • Statements disputed by their subject (source)
    • Emulators and what they emulate (source)
    • Map of items near me that have a label in English but not in Welsh (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Categories
  • Newest tools: TopicMatcher, by MagnusManske, looks for items related to topics

• Development
  • Making progress towards being able to query for constraint violations in the query service
  • Included the dispatch lag in the maxlag parameter to give better feedback to tools and bots if they can edit at the moment (phab:T194950)
  • Added support for linking to a particular statement (not just a statement group) (phab:T169224)
  • Set up L as an alias for the Lexeme namespace (phab:T195493)
  • Worked on making lexical category, language and grammatical feature show up on WhatLinksHere (phab:T195302)
  • Worked on Persistent IDs for Senses (phab:T198033)
  • Improve placeholder text for Lexeme language and lexical category field on Special:NewLexeme (phab:T195439)
  • Show description on the item selector on Special:NewLexeme (phab:T165597)
  • Add "mis" language code to the list of language code options on Special:NewLexeme (phab:T194771)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 10 jul 2018 10:36 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-29

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 use global preferences on Wikimedia wikis. You can set them on the global preferences page. [25]
• You can now see a new log of pages being created at Special:Log/create. It includes pages which are later deleted. It is now available on all Wikimedia wikis except Commons and Wikidata. [26]
• You can see how many pageviews a wiki had from specific countries. The Wikistats2 maps have now been updated. [27]

Changes later this week

• Your watchlist will show changes from the last seven days instead of three. If you have already set a length preference it will not change. [28]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from July 18. It will be on all wikis from July 19 (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on July 17 at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on July 18 at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Some articles have messages to readers about problems with the article. For example that it does not cite sources or might not be neutral. Readers do not see these messages on the mobile version. The developers now want to show them. You can read more and leave feedback.
• You can use <inputbox> to create search boxes for specific pages. For example to search the archives of a community discussion page. Instead of prefix:Page name you will see a text that explains which pages are being searched. You can read more and leave feedback.

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16 jul 2018 18:00 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #321

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Wikimania and Hackathon 2018, in Cape Town, South Africa, 18-22 July. See also the page listing the Wikidata-related events

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • The EU NanoSafety Cluster as Linked Data visualized with Scholia in the EU NanoSafety Cluster Newsletter
  • Converting any SPARQL endpoint to an OpenAPI, blog post about using grlc to convert the WDQS to an OpenAPI service
  • Wikidata on Azure, blog post series about hosting Wikidata data in Azure cloud
  • Wikibase workshop in Berlin
  • Research showcase about the ArticlePlaceholder
  • Keine Schwalben: Schauspielernde Fussballspieler in Wikidata

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New tool: Wikidata Cradle, by Magnus Manske, to create new items by filling a form. You can build your own forms.
  • Ordia (the tool to search for Lexemes and Forms) now displays a graph of grammatical features
  • The Wikidata Lexeme form tool got support for more languages and expanded support for the existing ones.
  • Global preferences are now available on all Wikimedia wikis
  • item Q 55 555 555 was created

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: grants academic degree, model year code
    • External identifiers: Inventory of French sanctuaries ID, BIA PSY person ID, House of Representatives of Morocco ID, My Heritage Surname ID, Logicielsmoto identifier, USNPL ID, SGJP Online ID, TasteAtlas ID, Conseil constitutionnel ID, Guide to Pharmacology Target ID, RHE doctor ID, RHE professor ID, AE member ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: horizontal depth, correct form, Mormon Literature and Creative Arts Database Works, Young's modulus, Billed height, Billed weight, Billed from, IPHAN ID, Ultimate tensile strength, Brenda Tissue Ontology ID, Belgian Heritage in Brazil ID, derived from language(s), description of glyph, Unicode block, mode of derivation, word with diacritical signs, rhyme, artist-info exhibition ID, invasive to, number of platform faces, state of conservation, Yield strengh, Hardness
    • External identifiers: OSM node ID, NATO Stock Number, EDIT16 IDs, GameSpot ID, SMS Power identifier, RPO ID, Split the Rock ID, Base de datos de premiados ID, legabasket.it player ID, Les voix de la poésie ID, Poetry in Voice ID, BD Gest' ID, Médicos históricos ID, Doroszewski Online ID, Boijmans work ID, RISM ID, WorldCat Registry ID, Poetry Society of America ID, LRB ID, WikiArt ID, MAPS ID, archINFORM ID (Personen und Körperschaften), DEFA-Filmdatenbank-ID, Enciclopèdia de l'Esport Català
  • Query examples:
    • Map of birthplaces of football players at 2018 FIFA World Cup
    • People born furthest from their place of education (source)
    • Timeline of discontinued Google products (based on source)
    • Paintings depicting the Bastille Day (source)

• Development
  • Worked on persistent storage for Senses on Lexemes - started by giving them a stable ID (phabricator:T198033)
  • Adding "mis" language code to the list of language code options on Special:NewLexeme (phabricator:T194771)
  • Made the Items used for Language, Lexical Category and Grammatical Feature show up on Special:WhatLinksHere (phabricator:T195302)
  • When adding a new Form the spelling variant is now filled out automatically based on the Lemma's (phabricator:195708)

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16 jul 2018 18:21 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-30

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

• When you log in to your account you can choose to keep being logged in. This checkbox now works better than before on the mobile version for users without JavaScript. [29]
• Wikis that use Citoid can automatically generate citations for Swedish news sites. This only works in the visual editor. This now works for Swedish public service radio. More will come. Others could use this to add news sites in other languages in the future. [30]
• Editors can do max 90 edits per minute. This is new since last month. This does not affect bots or administrators. [31]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 juli. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 juli. It will be on all wikis from 26 juli (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 25 juli at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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24 jul 2018 11:44 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #322

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Lakokat

• Events
  • Call for proposals and scholarship applications are now open for WikiConference North America
  • Past: Wikimania and Hackathon 2018, in Cape Town, South Africa, 18-22 July. See also the page listing the Wikidata-related events. The slides are usually listed from the talk's page on Wikimania wiki.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • You can help teaching ORES how to better detect vandalism
  • HarvestTemplates is now compatible with EditGroups: you can easily revert any run that goes wrong (even if it is not your own).

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Harmonized System Code, section number, CJKV variant character, ultimate tensile strength, Young's modulus, position of nasal sonant, LilyPond notation, hardness, accreditation
    • External identifiers: A Church Near You church ID, Australian Poetry Library poet ID, French Academy in Rome resident ID, GlyphWiki ID, Historia de la Medicina person ID, Mormon Literature and Creative Arts Database Artist ID, Scottish Poetry Library poet ID, The Reptile Database ID, Legabasket.it player ID, Les Voix de la poésie poet ID, RPO poet ID, SBN books ID, artist-info curator ID, artist-info artist ID, artist-info location ID, BD Gest' author ID, EDIT16 catalogue author ID, EDIT16 catalogue printer ID, GameSpot ID, Mormon Literature and Creative Arts Database Works ID, Médicos históricos doctor ID, Doroszewski Online ID, Base de datos de premiados person ID, Boijmans work ID, IPHAN ID, Brenda Tissue Ontology ID, LRB contributor ID, Poetry Society of America poet ID, RISM work ID, WorldCat Registry ID, Poetry In Voice poet ID, artist-info exhibition ID, archINFORM person or group ID, MAPS poet ID, DEFA film database ID, identifier for an item of Enciclopèdia de l'Esport Català, Znicenekostely ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Moisture absorption, date of release, Ideographic description sequences, Cangjie input, four-corner method, Hangul, Eumhun, Jyutping, Pe̍h-ōe-jī, Pha̍k-fa-sṳ, Bàng-uâ-cê, Kienning Colloquial Romanized, Guangdong Hakka Romanization, Sichuanese Pinyin, Peng'im, Unusually granulated item, Wine color, IANA service name, Toughness, upregulated by, Elongation at break, relative date properties, Prison History ID, CONDEPHAAT ID, copyright status, city that hosted Wikimania, Vietnamese pronunciation, Work hardening strain, Heat treating, EDb company ID, Water absorption, Schematic, passive voice, Normalized Unicode character, Enciclovida ID, Relative humidity, Poisson's ratio, Microstructure, key strength, Weakness
    • External identifiers: identifiant de l'Inventaire de la Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, 東京文化財研究所物故者識別拡張子, IDs from alternativa teatral, Virtual Laboratory ID, Academia Brasileira de Letras ID, Swedish Parish place names register, oric.org identifier, Kopaliński Online ID, Altmetric ID, Open Media Database person ID, Python Package Index project, CPAN project, RubyGems gem, CRAN project, L'île ID, National Road DataBase ID, Literature Ireland ID, Auteurs en Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes ID, Eulalie ID, Livre et lecture en Bretagne ID, RedTube ID, CICLIC ID, Interbibly ID, Le Monde ID, Courrier international ID, Courrier international source ID, Tebeosfera ID, Baidu ScholarID, College de France professor ID (1909-1939), Paris Faculty of Science professor ID, Paris Faculty of Arts professor ID (1809-1909), Paris Faculty of Arts professor ID (1909-1939), KLEKs building ID, Nobel Prize in Literature ID, Pacific Coast Architecture Database ID
  • Query examples:
    • Fictional characters married to their siblings (source)
    • Translations of disease names in South-African languages (source)
    • All Wikidata properties (which are not identifiers) without a label in Afrikaans (source)
    • List of people born or dead in Canton de Vaud (Switzerland), with archives where their documents are stored (source)
    • Timeline of serial killers (source)
    • Map of disasters, color-coded by disaster type (source)

• Development
  • More work on showing Lexemes and Forms in Special:WhatLinksHere (phab:T195302)
  • Fix wrong translations of Form related strings (phab:T191614)
  • Fix error message for non empty item (phab:T194371)
  • More work on storing Senses (phab:T198032)
  • More work on easy Wikibase Docker instance config generation (phab:T198841)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 25 jul 2018 11:09 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-31

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 design on Special:Log has changed. It will change again soon. Developers are working on fixing problems. [32]

Problems

• Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.13 has been partially delayed. All deployments have been resumed and successfully done after bug fixes. [33][34]
• Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.14 has been partially delayed. [35][36]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 juli. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 augustus. It will be on all wikis from 2 augustus (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 31 juli at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 1 augustus at 15:00 (UTC) as well as at 23:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• After a community discussion, a new group for users will be created. "Interface administrators" will be the only users allowed to edit interface pages like MediaWiki:Common.css or MediaWiki:Common.js. This is done to avoid technical issues and improve security. That change will be effective by the end of August 2018.

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30 jul 2018 16:05 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #323

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for comments: Help:Modelling

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Ce que révèlent les noms des rues de Paris (fr): a study about the names of the streets of Paris, using data from OSM and Wikidata

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • EditGroups can now revert batches which created items. These items are deleted in the revert batch. This feature is only available to administrators but other users can easily request revert from the tool.
  • populationWDvsOSM: a new script that compares the population in OSM place nodes and boundary relations with Wikidata
  • user:Lakokat is back to adminship, congratulations!
  • Terminator, a tool by Magnus Manske that finds Wikidata items that lack a label, description, or article in a specific language, has now a version 2 (blog post)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: four-corner method, Cangjie input, toughness, Unicode block, fanqie, horizontal depth, valency, yield strength, Hangul of a Chinese character
    • External identifiers: Virtual Laboratory person ID, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regional Inventory identifier, CONDEPHAAT ID, Academia Brasileira de Letras ID, Belgian Heritage in Brazil ID, Altmetric ID, Central Index Key, L'île author ID, Kopaliński Online ID, Open Media Database person ID, Prison History ID, Swedish place name register SOFI
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: toponym, Bpk-Identifikator, number of arrests, Multi-channel network, Coefficient of friction, expiration date, number of persons depicted, located in the ecclesiastical territorial entity, surface roughness, environment, force, atomic mass, fatigue limit, Pitting resistance equivalent number, casting director, touringclub.it destinazione, organizational unit id
    • External identifiers: INEPAC ID, La Vie des idées ID, IDIH ID, CNRS ID, Institut culturel de Bretagne ID, CSDE Lynching Database ID, Tebeosfera character ID, QS World University URL, MUSE journal ID, Times Higher Education World University ID, iNaturalist observation ID, Indian census area code (2011), archINFORM ID (Orte), code Transport Canada, Lyrically artist ID, Flight Report Airline ID, NooSFere author ID, NooSFere book ID, PRELIB ID
  • Query examples:
    • Ancient Greek pottery items stored in Museum St-Raymond, France (source)
    • Timeline of early aviators who died in an accident (source)
    • Timeline of direct-to-video sequels of theatrical movies (source)
    • Music albums from Argentina (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: iNaturalist
  • Newest database reports: list of lexemes, number of lexemes by languages and lexical categories

• Development
  • Corrected several translation errors on Lexeme page (confusing Form word) (phabricator:T191614)
  • Working on merging of Lexemes (phabricator:T198105)
  • Working on adding a better HTML title to Lexeme pages (phabricator:T195386)
  • Further work on supporting Senses on Lexemes - specifically persistent IDs for Senses and preventing the deletion of the last Gloss of a Sense (phabricator:T198032, phabricator:T198199)
  • Adjusted colors of the Query Service UI to be more in line with Wikimedia style guide (phabricator:T192235, Thanks abian!)
  • Fixed validation of input length on Special:NewItem (phabricator:T145932)
  • Fixed issue with embedded view of query results (phabricator:T200409)
  • Fixed change dispatching issues (phabricator:T200420)
  • Investigated issue where some parts of the interface were shown in a different language than they should be (phabricator:T199983)

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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The Signpost: 31 July 2018

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

• From the editor: If only if

• Op-ed: The last leg of the Admin Ship's current cruise

• Opinion: Wrestling with Wikipedia reality

• News and notes: Another newspaper for Wikipedia; Wikimania 2018 ends; changes at NPR

• In the media: Blackouts in Europe; Wikipedia and capitalists; WMF Jet Set

• Discussion report: Wikipedias take action against EU copyright proposal, plus new user right proposals

• Featured content: Wikipedia's best content in images and prose

• Arbitration report: Status quo processes retained in two disputes

• Traffic report: Soccer, football, call it what you like – that and summer movies leave room for little else

• Technology report: New bots, new prefs

• Gallery: Independence days, national holidays, and football – all in July

• Blog: Motivation of two editors

• Recent research: Different Wikipedias use different images; editing contests more successful than edit-a-thons

• Humour: It's all the same

• Essay: Wikipedia does not need you

• From the archives: The pending changes fiasco: how an attempt to answer one question turned into a quagmire

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Wikidata weekly summary #324

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Bovlb
  • Closed request for comments: Association Football Matches

• Events
  • Past: State of the Map, the OpenStreetMap equivalent of Wikimania, was held in Milan from 28-30 July. There were two meetups on interactions between Wikimedia and OSM, and Wikidata was mentioned in several sessions, including:
    • OpenStreetMap and Wikimedia:A Quick overview
    • Maps based on Wikidata queries
    • Wikimedia in disaster management and humanitarian aid: an overview
  • Incoming: Wikidata workshop in Harvard University, MA, USA, on August 8th

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Machine-Generated Knowledge Bases - harvesting tuples from news and scholarly corpora and releasing them as open data
    • Wired story on the above

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikibase quality constraints are now loaded into the Query Service and can be queried. Queries on property talk pages have been adapted.
  • Wikidata Toolkit 0.9 has been released
  • A list of Wikidata-related activities for coursework has been started at d:Wikidata:Wikidata curricula/Activities
  • We know have more than 10,000 Lexemes in Wikidata
  • A challenge about months of the year is running, you can create Lexemes with the ones in your language

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: derived from form, schematic, passive voice, registration district, expressed in, coefficient of friction, number of arrests, invasive to, microstructure, normalized Unicode character, number of works accessible online, Poisson's ratio, moisture absorption, number of platform faces, relative humidity
    • External identifiers: Auteurs en Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes ID, Eulalie ID, RedTube ID, Paris Faculty of Science professor ID, Literature Ireland ID, Livre et lecture en Bretagne ID, Paris Faculty of Letters professor ID (1909-1939), Paris Faculty of Letters professor ID (1809-1908), College de France professor ID (1909-1939), CICLIC author ID, INEPAC ID, La Vie des idées ID, Courrier international topic ID, CNRS ID, IDIH ID, Courrier international source ID, KLEKs ID, Interbibly author ID, Le Monde ID, MUSE journal ID, Institut culturel de Bretagne ID, Tebeosfera ID, CSDE Lynching Database ID, CRAN project, RubyGems gem, National Research Institute for Cultural Properties dead artist ID, Python Package Index project, Tebeosfera character ID, NooSFere author ID, NooSFere book ID, archINFORM ID (locations), CAGE code, EDb company ID, Indian census area code (2011), flight-report.com Airline identifier, Norwegian National Road DataBase ID, NATO Stock Number, QS World University ID, SMS Power identifier, Times Higher Education World University ID, Libris-URI, oric.org identifier, Artcyclopedia artist ID, Places of Worship Inventory ID, P5599
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: value is inherited from, Guss, Countries with high prevalence, chieseitaliane ID, legal status, Match Score, topic's subcategory, Covered by, Alexander–Briggs notation
    • External identifiers: U-Multirank University ID, Trove newspaper ID, Belvedere object ID, Aosdána ID, Chercheurs d'Asie ID, Evene ID, OpenMath ID, GLAMOS ID, Swimsuit ID, archINFORM ID (Schlagwörter), CMI ID, Featured Biographies ID, CNT ID, Comédie-Française ID, DOLF ID, Marvel character ID, FFF character ID, FFF author ID, National Cartoonists Society ID, Number World ID, legabasket.it coach ID, Black Ferns ID, WSO Online ID, IEEE standard, ITU-T Recommendation, ITU-R Recommendation, LOA ID, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade ID, Global Invasive Species Database ID, iTunes music video ID
  • Query examples:
    • minerals named after women (source)
    • Frequency of major and minor key tonalities per genre (source)
    • Timeline of Writing Systems (source)
    • Nonprofit organizations and the software they develop (source)
    • Map of newspapers in Oregon (source)

• Development
  • Allow to show incoming links on the graph explorer dialog on WDQS (phab:T197778)
  • Fulltext search for Lexemes and Forms (only in Lexeme namespace) has been merged (phab:T196188)
  • We are now collecting click data when completion search on Wikidata is used (phab:T196186) which would serve us to improve search relevancy
  • Fix a lot of issues with our test system (phab:T200693)
  • Disallow merging of items that link to each other in references and qualifiers (phab:T119614)
  • More work on merging Lexemes (phab:T200884)
  • Provide useful HTML title for Lexemes (phab:T195386)
  • Improve the validation and error message when a label, description or alias is too long (phab:T145932, phab:T200780)
  • Expose constraint violations to WDQS (phab:T192567)
  • Add the possibility to download result of a query from the embed mode (phab:T176797)
  • Get persistent editing of Senses done (phab:T196270) (you can try it now on the beta system)
  • Work on edit summary of Senses (phab:T196290)
  • Work on diffs of Senses (phab:T196289)

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: 2018-32

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

• Special:NewPages now has the OOUI look. [37]

Problems

• The MediaWiki version that was released two weeks ago was late to some Wikimedia wikis. This was because of bugs. It was on all wikis 30 July. [38][39]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 August. It will be on all wikis from 9 August.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 7 August at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 8 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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6 aug 2018 21:39 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #325

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Bencemac

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Celtic Knot 2018 – How can Wikidata support minority language Wikipedias, by Delphine Dallison
  • The rise of Wikidata as a linked data source, by Karen Smith-Yoshimura on the OCLC Research blog
  • A global collection of astrolabes in linked open data, by Martin Poulter, University of Oxford. With the Museum of the History of Science which is part of the university, Martin is exploring a possible "Sum of all Astrolabes" project. This post is to promote the idea to researchers and GLAM staff.
  • Where do Mayors Come From: Querying Wikidata with Python and SPARQL, by Nikolai Janakiev

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • list of badged items without claims has a new format
  • Sitelinks for the new Santali Wikipedia (satwiki) can be added. Links to the new Chinese Wikiversity (zhwikiversity) can be made
  • The logs of (anonymized) SPARQL queries are now available
  • wikidata-edit now supports 'somevalue' and 'novalue' claims and qualifiers
  • thus, wikidata-cli now also supports 'somevalue' and 'novalue' claims and qualifiers
  • During Wikimania 2018, 25 people attended to a workshop about Lexicographical data. The results of this experience and the related tickets are summarized here.
  • New admin: Bovlb. Welcome on board!

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: station category, located in the ecclesiastical territorial entity, fatigue limit, type of water supply, pitting resistance equivalent number, Vietnamese reading
    • External identifiers: U-Multirank university ID, TCI destination ID, Chercheurs d'Asie ID, Trove newspaper ID, archINFORM keyword ID, DOLF ID, Split This Rock poet ID, OpenMath ID, chieseitaliane ID, legabasket.it ID, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade ID, Aosdána ID, CNT ID, Comédie-Française ID, Evene ID, LOA ID, FFF author ID, FFF character ID, Marvel character ID, National Cartoonists Society author ID, Global Invasive Species Database ID, WSO Online ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Prisoner count, relative to, Railway traffic side, code DGAC, Membro della squadra nazionale, linear thermal expansion coefficient, glass transition temperature, heat deflection temperature, compressive strength, bulk modulus, flexural modulus, flexural strength, shear modulus, shear strength, tear resistance, abrasion resistance, Vicat softening point, thermal diffusivity, chemical resistance, permeation, electrical resistivity, relative permittivity, relative permeability, dissipation factor, magnetic ordering, noun for other gender, combines lexemes, form is subject of, Airline Accounting Code, dummy value, identifier
    • External identifiers: iTunes music video ID, New Zealand Business Number, Brasseur ID, football.it female player ID, Gynopedia place ID, MuIS collection ID, CNL ID, RSL ID, LARB ID, Canal Académie ID, World Rugby Women's World Cup player ID, New Zealand Book Council ID, ANZL ID, Carthalia ID, TRBC, Theatrum ID, VGMdb product ID, Amphi-Theatrum ID, Persons of Indian Studies ID, National Humanities Medal ID, Expedia hotel ID, anime AniDB ID, creator AniDB ID, character AniDB ID, SR Nummer, identifiant Inventaire et Documentation du Patrimoine Culturel du Maroc, Exoplanet Data Explorer ID, Morse code, Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia ID, NASA Exoplanet Archive ID, France Musique ID, Académie française ID, Académie de Mâcon member ID, Académie de Montpellier member ID, Académie de Versailles member ID, Invasive Species Compendium Datasheet ID, MusicBrainz release ID, Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame ID, Cartooning for Peace ID, Savoirs ENS ID, Diffusion ENS ID, Quais du polar ID
  • Deleted properties: USGS-ANSS event page (P5089), Projeto Excelências ID (P2731)
  • Query examples:
    • Topics for which the English Wikipedia wikilinks to the University of Virginia but the corresponding Wikidata entry does not
    • Map of institutions where Canadian citizens got their PhD
    • Space probes that have their own Twitter accounts (source)
    • Newspapers in Wikidata with a recorded place of publication (source)
    • Countries whose capital city can be spelled out only using letters from the country's name (source)
    • Amara taxons and their Wikispecies link (source)
    • Things related to open access to research in Japan (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Humanitarian Wikidata

• Development
  • More work on merging Lexemes (phab:T198105)
  • Possibility to add statements to just created Forms (phab:T201389)
  • Provide useful HTML title for Lexemes (phab:T195386)
  • Remove a Sense (phab:T196283)
  • View a referenced Sense (phab:T196264)
  • Edit summaries for Senses (phab:T196290)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 13 aug 2018 16:09 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-33

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

• CSS in templates can now be stored in a separate page on all wikis. This is called TemplateStyles. This is to make it easier to edit how templates look. [40]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 14 August at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 15 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The developers are planning more ways to block users. This could be blocking someone from just a page or a namespace. You can read more. You can leave feedback on the talk page. [41]

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13 aug 2018 19:53 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #326

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

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2018-08-20.

• Events
  • Past: Wikimedia and IIIF, IIIF Community Call, August 15th. Including current use of Property:P2677 (relative position within image) and plans for Commons structured data.
  • Incoming: Wikidata Lab X in São Paulo, Brazil, September 17th

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Google Summer of Code:
    • GSoC ‘18: In 60 seconds: Prssanna Desai has been helping improve the Query Service
    • JOSM/Plugins/Wikipedia/GSoC 2018: 'Floscher' has been working to improve the Wikidata/Wikipedia-related functionality of the 'JOSM' editor for OpenStreetMap
  • Design Challenges in Named Entity Transliteration - a paper discussing "fundamental design challenges that impact the development of a multilingual state-of-the-art named entity transliteration system", with reference to Wikidata
  • Quicksilver: Training an #ML system to generate draft Wikipedia articles and Wikidata entries simultaneously, slides by John Bohannon and Vedant Dharnidharka

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • http://sciencestories.io/ - Using Wikidata to explore the scientific research of women - e.g. http://sciencestories.io/Q6376201
  • New version of JsonDumpReader, a tool for using JSON dumps from Wikidata or other Wikibase instances
  • WikiCite/Roadmap: a summary of the meetup at Wikimania 2018 and presentation of four possible ways forward for Wikicite
  • Wikidata Extractor: A tool to extract Wikidata IDs from OpenStreetMap, given an Overpass Turbo query
  • d:Wikidata:ScienceSource focus list/Main subject needed, ListeriaBot-generated workflow for main subject (P921)
  • New administrator: Bencemac. Welcome on board!
  • Wikidata Shape Expressions Inference tool announced
  • Gender gap in Wikidata: the tool Denelezh will be closed on October 31st

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: prisoner count, risk factor, railway traffic side, bulk modulus, compressive strength, glass transition temperature, linear thermal expansion coefficient, shear modulus, thermal diffusivity, relative permittivity, relative permeability, flexural strength, dissipation factor, electrical resistivity, flexural modulus, heat deflection temperature, tear resistance
    • External identifiers: football.it female player ID, Brasseur ID, Canal Académie ID, Persons of Indian Studies ID, Amphi-Theatrum ID, Theatrum ID, ANZL writer ID, Black Ferns ID, CNL author ID, IEEE standard, LARB contributor ID, New Zealand Book Council writer ID, PRELIB person ID, RSL author ID, World Rugby Women's World Cup player ID, Académie française prize winner ID, AniDB anime ID, Baidu ScholarID, AniDB character ID, AniDB creator ID, Exoplanet Data Explorer exoplanet ID, Expedia hotel ID, Carthalia ID, Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia exoplanet ID, France Musique person ID, iTunes music video ID, MuIS collection ID, National Humanities Medal winner ID, VGMdb product ID, Diffusion ENS ID, Académie de Montpellier member ID, Académie de Mâcon member ID, Académie de Versailles member ID, Savoirs ENS ID, Cartooning for Peace cartoonist ID, Quais du polar writer ID, NASA Exoplanet Archive exoplanet ID, Hoopla ID, iNaturalist observation ID, ITU-R Recommendation, New Zealand Business Number, ITU-T Recommendation, Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: BND ID, Status in the Red List of Threatened Species in the Czech Republic, set score, historical region, modified version, sample, end point, coordinate location GCJ02, bgm.tv identifier, bilibili ID, Moegirlpedia Chinese Article Entry, Academia URL, requires grammatical feature, Seed, peak Billboard chart position, number of weeks on the Billboard chart
    • External identifiers: Bibliopoche ID, La Lorraine des écrivains ID, Fandango movie id, So Foot ID, Indian Railways station code, Norwegian war refugees register ID, Index of Historic Collectors and Dealers of Cubism ID, Tasmanian Heritage Register ID, Basisklassifikation, LARB author ID, TPA ID, Revues littéraires ID, IMEC ID, Recours au poème ID, National Medal of Arts ID, PAM ID, Tor.com author, 2006 Commonwealth Games athlete ID, Boobpedia article
  • Deleted properties: NARA person ID (P1222), print run (P4877)
  • Query examples:
    • Federated query with Nobel.org: Places on Moon or Mars named after Nobel prize winners (source)
    • Texts ranked by the number of languages in which they are available through Wikisource (adapted from source)
    • Map of places co-occurring with species or higher-order taxa as main subjects of publications (source)
    • Software titles and what they were inspired by (source)
    • Occupations of the accused witches in the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft database (source)
    • Gallery of Nobel prizes winners (federated query) (source)
  • Showcase items: Crawford

• Development
  • Show Senses in WhatLinksHere (phab:T200980)
  • Build ability to remove Senses (phab:T196283)
  • Reference a Sense in a statement (phab:T196263)
  • Improve the language code check for Lexemes (phab:T198202)
  • Prepare item/property link formatter that uses cache instead of wb_terms DB table (phab:T201831)
  • More work on merging Lexemes (phab:T198104)
  • Showing the Lemma or Representation when Lexemes or Forms are mentioned in constraint reports (phab:T195315)
  • Add new monolingual language codes: uga (Ugaritic), rar (Rarotongan), gmy (Mycenean Greek), mnw (Mon), mid (Modern Mandaic), haz (Hazaragi)
  • Fix a bug on the Query Service interface (phab:T201951)
  • Add number of results in embed map view of the Query Service (phab:T201908)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 20 aug 2018 16:18 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-34

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 21 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 August. It will be on all wikis from 23 August (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 22 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The 2018 Community Wishlist Survey begins on 29 October. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 29 October to 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.
• Legacy JavaScript global variables have been deprecated for seven years. They will soon be removed from all wikis. Gadgets and scripts that use them will stop working. You can test your community's gadgets on "group0" wikis. For example Test Wikipedia or mediawiki.org. The legacy JavaScript global variables are already disabled there. You can read the migration guide to fix old scripts. [42]

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20 aug 2018 18:46 (CEST)

Books & Bytes – Issue 29

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 29, June – July 2018

• New partners
  • Economic & Political Weekly–10 accounts
• Wikimania
• Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
• Global branches update
• Bytes in brief

Hindi, Italian and French versions of Books & Bytes are now available in meta!
Read the full newsletter

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Wikidata weekly summary #327

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Abián
  • New request for comments: Adding short code for cryptocurrencies

• Events
  • September 8, Zurich: Wikidata Zurich Hackathon a hacking event to code with and for Wikidata.
  • Wikidata IRC office hour: September 25th, from 18:00 to 19:00 (UTC+2, Berlin time), on the channel #wikimedia-office
  • October 23, Berlin: Workshop on how to use Wikidata in research contexts
  • October 26/27, The Hague: Wiki Techstorm

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Underwater Basket Weaving: Russian Writers and Their Professions According to Wikidata, by Galina Ryazanskaya, Alena Shchevyeva and Maria Suvorova
  • Strategic inclusion of library data from Sweden into Wikidata (in Swedish), by Axel Pettersson
  • Old but gold, three articles by Denny about design decisions that were made for Wikidata: Restricting the world, On truth and lies, A categorical imperative?

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Structured Data on Commons: A draft specification for using Depicts statements on Commons is up for community feedback.
  • It's possible to add somevalue and novalue using QuickStatements, and to use the tool on test.wikidata.org as well.
  • More properties can be searched using haswbstatement. This includes all properties with "external identifier", "string", "item", "property", "lexeme", "form" and "sense" datatypes, except published in (P1433) and cites (P2860). In addition you may make queries without a specified value.
  • The page creation and edit rate limit imposed in April will be removed in the next days. However, users who are not bots or administrators are throttled to 90 edits per minute (which was set up on all Wikimedia wikis in May).
  • These new languages are now supported for monolingual text strings: mid, mnw, gmy, rar, haz, uga. The language doesn't show up in the suggester, but you can save the statement and it will be stored properly.
  • Reminder: Wikidata's sixth birthday happens in two months. It's time to think about organizing a meetup with your local community, or preparing a gift (see the list of presents last year).
  • Lexicographical data: you can now try Senses on beta
  • 25% of the labeling campaign to improve the vandalism detection on Wikidata has been done. Please help by reviewing a few edits!

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: dummy value, airline accounting code, shear strength, sample, force, abrasion resistance, requires grammatical feature, Academia.edu profile URL
    • External identifiers: BND ID, Fandango movie ID, IDPCM ID, Bibliopoche author ID, Indian Railways station code, Invasive Species Compendium Datasheet ID, Transport Canada LID, La Lorraine des écrivains writer ID, Tasmanian Heritage Register ID, LARB author ID, Recours au poème ID, Revues Littéraires ID, IMEC ID, Tor.com author ID, 2006 Commonwealth Games athlete ID, TPA person ID, PAM ID, National Medal of Arts winner ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: ISO 15919 transliteration, U.P.C. Company Prefix, value is more specific than, peak position on chart, number of weeks on chart, Pietre della Memoria ID, editor-in-chief, image of interior, Osservatorio culturale del Cantone Ticino ID, periphrasis, OSI Model layer
    • External identifiers: Cineuropa movie id, Partis d'Arcadie ID, WSJP ID, Voetbalstats ID, Angelicum ID, PUSC ID, BasketballBundesliga ID, GreekBasketLeague ID, BSL ID, BSN ID, PLK ID, Historic Hotels of America ID, Historic Hotels Worldwide ID, Morse code, MPC body ID, Open Exoplanet Catalogue ID, KERIS School info, FBref ID, Pacific Coast Architecture Database person ID, Syndikat ID, CWA ID, NDB identifier, Petit Futé ID, DAV ID, ÖAV ID, SAC ID, PZS ID, ABMC ID, The Park Database ID, IMA ID, Directorio de Museos y Colecciones de España ID, Pakistan Railways station code, RBU athlete ID, RBU coach ID, Historic Hotels of Europe ID, Animator.ru person ID, Moviepilot.de film ID, CoinMarketCap cryptocurrency ID, Television Academy Foundation interviewee ID, Academia topic ID
  • Deleted properties: Heritage Building in Finland ID (P4237), patron (P1962)
  • Query examples:
    • Map of libraries in Austria (source)
    • Countries ranked by number of Wikidata-known people born there whose English version of the given name starts with Q or X (source)
    • List of Windows games released this year (source)
    • Countries with most citizens on Wikidata whose given name starts with X or Q (source)
    • People entered in the Dictionary of Welsh Biography by gender and birth location (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Invasive Species

• Development
  • More work on merging Lexemes
  • More work on data types and edit summary for Senses
  • Improve qualifier suggestions using constraint definition (phab:T201288)
  • Improve constraint property item suggestions for property constraint values (phab:T199672)
  • Remove ratelimit from Wikidata for some groups again (phab:T198396)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 27 aug 2018 15:13 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-35

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 moved paragraphs in diffs in the mobile view. It also works on all languages in the desktop view. [43]
• Bureaucrats on all Wikimedia wikis can now remove the interface admin user right. [44]

Problems

• Some diffs show lines in the wrong order. The developers are working on fixing it. [45]

Changes later this week

• The message you see when you thank a user will change. This is to make it easier to understand. [46]
• AWB will stop adding using AWB in the edit summary. Instead it will add a tag that says AWB. [47]
• Some abuse filter variables have changed. They are now easier to understand for non-experts. The old variables will still work but filter editors are encouraged to replace them with the new ones. You can find the list of changed variables on mediawiki.org. They have a note which says Deprecated. Use ... instead. An example is article_text which is now page_title. [48]
• Abuse filters can now use how old a page is. The variable is page_age. [49]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 August. It will be on all wikis from 30 August (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 28 August at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 29 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.

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27 aug 2018 18:16 (CEST)

The Signpost: 30 August 2018

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

• From the editor: Today's young adults don't know a world without Wikipedia

• Interview: 2018 Wikimedian of the Year, Farkhad Fatkullin

• News and notes: Flying high; low practice from Wikipedia 'cleansing' agency; where do our donations go? RfA sees a new trend

• In the media: Quicksilver AI writes articles

• Discussion report: Drafting an interface administrator policy

• Featured content: Featured content selected by the community

• Special report: Wikimania 2018

• Traffic report: Aretha dies – getting just 2,000 short of 5 million hits

• Technology report: Technical enhancements and a request to prioritize upcoming work

• Gallery: Leapfrog, historic Thai cave, and a rhythmic beat

• Recent research: Wehrmacht on Wikipedia, neural networks writing biographies

• Humour: Signpost editor censors herself

• Essay: Principle of Some Astonishment

• From the archives: Playing with Wikipedia words

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Tech News: 2018-36

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

• There is a new user right for users who can edit CSS and JavaScript for the entire wiki. Before this all admins could edit CSS and JavaScript. This was a security risk. This group is called interface administrators. Administrators can delete user CSS and JavaScript pages. [50][51]
• There will be an A/B test on the Wikipedia mobile website. It starts this week. It tests how we show templates that show information about an article. The test will last two weeks. [52][53]
• You can now use different CSS rules for different skins when you edit templates. This is because of TemplateStyles. [54]
• wp10 in ORES is now called articlequality. [55]
• When you get a new message on your talk page you get a yellow message in the toolbar. The preference to show or not show this has been removed. [56]

Problems

• UploadWizard had problems with campaigns. Users could not upload files. This has now been fixed. [57]
• You can get a notification when a link is made to a page you created. This has not worked since June. It was fixed last week. [58]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 September. It will be on all wikis from 6 September (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 5 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation Readers department will work on advanced mobile editing. You can read more about this and other things they plan to work on over the next year. You can also see the presentation.
• The RelatedSites extension will be removed from Wikivoyage.
• Unused projects on the Wikimedia Cloud virtual private server will be removed. This will happen in October. Projects can be marked if they are being used. [59]

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3 sep 2018 18:47 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #328

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

• Events
  • 3-5 September, Bologna: Workshop on Open Citations, with several WikiCite-related talks and an associated hackathon
  • 8 September, Zurich, Switzerland: Wikidata Hackathon
  • September and early October: Andy Mabbett is touring Australia for a series of open-science and GLAM Wiki-focused talks, workshops, and meetups.
  • 23 October 2018, Berlin: Workshop How can I use Wikidata for my research?
  • Applications are invited for WikiCite 2018 (27-29 November in Berkeley)
  • Registration is now open for PIDapalooza 2019 in Dublin, Ireland on 23-24 January.

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Many faces of Wikibase: Cataloging the history of the Illuminati

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New admin: Abián. Welcome onboard!
  • Better suggestions for constraint values on properties
  • Wikidata now has 100 million qualifiers on statements
  • A proposal comes forth to use Wikidata Qs as permanent IDs for OpenStreetMap. See the discussion.
  • A Stanford University announces a Wikimedian in Residence position focused on Library metadata and Wikidata: see the announcement on Wikidata-l
  • SourceMD and ORCIDator have been merged and can now be run in batch mode (announcement by Magnus Manske)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: ideographic description sequences, editor-in-chief, image of interior
    • External identifiers: WSJP ID, Turkish Basketball Super League ID, Greek Basket League ID, Polish Basketball League ID, Basketball Bundesliga ID, Baloncesto Superior Nacional ID, Pietre della Memoria ID, Partis d'Arcadie ID, Angelicum author ID, bgm.tv subject identifier, bilibili ID, Historic Hotels of America ID, Historic Hotels Worldwide ID, Minor Planet Center body ID, Moegirlpedia Chinese Article Entry, Open Exoplanet Catalogue exoplanet ID, PUSC author ID, So Foot ID, Voetbalstats player ID, SR Number, KERIS school ID, Pacific Coast Architecture Database person ID, Directorate General of Civil Aeronautics (Mexico) code, CWA writer ID, Basisklassifikation, ASIN, FBref player ID, Syndikat writer ID, EU RCN, ABMC person ID, DAV hut ID, PZS hut ID, ÖAV hut ID, Petit Futé site ID, SAC ID, NDB identifier for airport beacons, Directorio de Museos y Colecciones de España ID, IMA museum ID, The Park Database ID, Osservatorio culturale del Cantone Ticino ID, Animator.ru person ID, RBU athlete ID, RBU coach ID, Television Academy Foundation interviewee ID, Historic Hotels of Europe ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Cryptocurrency Symbol, Cooperative Patent Classification, usage example, described in Wikimedia article, beer color, beer bitterness
    • External identifiers: DBUnico ID, EU participant ID, WorldofVolley ID, Skijumping.pl ID, Arnet Miner author ID, Cranach Digital Archive Kunstwerk ID, DSV ID, The Gymternet ID, Ski Jumping Hill Archive ID, cpcrulez, e621, AustLII ID, NooSFere series ID, IGDB game ID, IGDB platform ID, IGDB person ID, Dobry słownik ID, Twitch channel ID, OlympicChannel athlete ID, Académie de Marseille member ID, Film Indonesia ID, BGCI Garden ID, International Mathematical Olympiad participant ID
  • Query examples:
    • License of an image on Commons, while Structured Commons is in the making (source)
    • Gallery of Gods and other deities
    • Closest library for each public bookcase in Vienna (source)
    • Line chart of Human Development Index over time for a set of countries (source)
  • Newest database reports: people by Erdős number and number of works in Wikidata

• Development
  • Final polishing on first version of Senses support for Lexemes. (phabricator:T201000, phabricator:T202729, phabricator:T198036, phabricator:T203334)
  • Continued work on merging Lexemes. Merging via the SpecialPage is done and will be rolled out soon. Merging via the API is still being worked on. (phabricator:T189129)
  • Long Lemmas in Lexemes look bad because they are not flowing to the next line and instead break the layout. Working on a fix. (phabricator:T195367)
  • Improving the validity of the HTML of the Lexeme headers. (phabricator:T196228)
  • Worked on showing the Lemma(s) or Representation(s) when Lexemes or Forms are mentioned in constraint reports. (phabricator:T195315)
  • Got a new beta feature ready for deployment that will improve the suggestions for properties like sex/gender by first suggesting the values defined in the one-of constraint. (phabricator:T202712)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 4 sep 2018 10:15 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #329

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

• Events
  • Wikidata-related presentations at Workshop on Open Citations, 3-5 September, Bologna: Remixing the graph/ Scholia as of September 2018/ A guided tour through citation networks around public health emergencies
  • The Wikidata Birthday will take place in more than 20 places around the world. What about yours?

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Many faces of Wikibase: Rhizome's archive of born-digital art and digital preservation, Wikimedia Blog
  • Wikidata Sparql Query Log Analysis (Part 1, Part 2)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Structured Data on Commons: There is now a page with a collection of Wikidata properties that may be needed for Wikimedia Commons. Please improve this page and provide feedback!
  • Structured Data on Commons: Take a look at the new mockups of structured licensing and copyright statements on file pages, and leave your comments.
  • Manuscript explorer powered by Wikidata
  • Wikimedia Sverige receives funding for Finding GLAMs and Libraries Data project
  • Wikimedia Deutschland has several open positions around the Wikidata development team including a program manager position
  • Stanford has a job opening for a Wikidata-focused Wikimedian in Residence

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Cooperative Patent Classification code, Thomson Reuters Business Classification, narrative role, stage crew member, has program committee member, OSI Model layer location, cryptocurrency, elongation at break
    • External identifiers: Arnet Miner author ID, CoinMarketCap cryptocurrency ID, CPAN project, cpcrulez ID, DBUnico MIBACT ID, Cranach Digital Archive artwork ID, DSV person ID, EU Research Participant ID, Moviepilot.de film ID, Ski Jumping Hill Archive ID, The Gymternet gymnast ID, WorldofVolley player ID, Skijumping.pl jumper ID, Cineuropa film ID, NooSFere series ID, Dobry słownik ID, IGDB game ID, IGDB platform ID, IGDB person ID, Twitch channel ID, AustLII ID, Academia.edu topic ID, VOR/DME identifier for airport beacons, SNOMED CT identifier, Alternativa Teatral person ID, Alternativa Teatral work ID, Alternativa Teatral place ID, MusicBrainz release ID, IANA service name, OlympicChannel athlete ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: title in TeX, Admission rate, is retracted by, intelligence quotient, subject stated as, predicate stated as, Vocabolario Treccani ID, Bank properties, forms, has contraction, Study fees
    • External identifiers: GameID, ww2.org ID, Country or city ID on Hilton, ArhivX LOD, National Trust for Historic Preservation ID, Television Academy Foundation show ID, LHW ID, Relais et Châteaux ID, World Travel Awards ID, Mathematical Reviews journal ID, Preferred Hotels and Resorts ID, AnimeClick anime ID, AnimeClick character ID, AnimeClick manga ID, AnimeClick novel ID, Code aéroport interne de l'espace russophone, iTunes podcast ID, AnimeClick person ID
  • Query examples:
    • Nobel Prize winners in WIkidata that miss a LIBRIS id (source)
    • Recent video game items with associated sitelinks and identifiers (source)
    • Video game titles available on more than ten platforms (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Wikidata:WikiProject Retractions

• Development
  • Improve qualifier suggestions using constraint definition (phab:T201288)
  • Merge Lexemes via the API (phab:T198104)
  • Show lemmas and representations in constraint reports (phab:T195315)
  • Make Form ID link targets less redundant (phab:)
  • Polishing html for Lexemes (phab:T196226, phab:T199081)
  • Merging Senses (phab:T201605)
  • Checking glosses (phab:T202427, phab:T198203)
  • Accepting lowercase Sense IDs as values in statements (phab:T203334)
  • Use hyphenation for long sense gloss (phab:T203241)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 10 sep 2018 16:52 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-37

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

• When you added or edited a template with the visual editor the input boxes were very big. This has been fixed. The input boxes will now be smaller until you click on them. Then they will change size to fit the text. [60]

Problems

• Some diffs showed lines in the wrong order. This was fixed last week. [61]
• Marking a cross-wiki notification as read didn't work every time. The other wiki was not updated. This has now been fixed. [62]
• <maplink> did not work for a few days. This was because of a bug. This has now been fixed. [63]
• {{subst:REVISIONUSER}} is used by some templates. For a period edits saved with {{subst:REVISIONUSER}} would save the previous user's name and not your username. This is now fixed. Edits made before the bug was fixed will still be wrong and need to be corrected. [64]
• When you move a page the title still shows the old page name. The developers are working on fixing this. [65]

Changes later this week

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.
• Because of the data centre test there will be no new version of MediaWiki this week. Changes for this week will come next week instead.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 11 Septmber at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 12 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The developers work on making the wikis work better on mobile phones. There is a list of common problems when making content easier to read in the mobile view. You can add things to the page and ask others to help.

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11 sep 2018 00:35 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #330

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

• Discussions
  • Open requests for adminship: Dan Koehl, Joalpe

• Events
  • Continuing through September and early October: Andy Mabbett is touring Australia for a series of open-science and GLAM Wiki-focused talks, workshops, and meetups.
  • New events added for the sixth birthday of Wikidata: Berlin, Oslo, Tehran, Beijing

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • An increasing number of reports from This Month in GLAM Wikidata related stories. To follow, subscribe here. Though most country reports include Wikidata activities, highlights from this month include:
    • Brazilian Wikimedians develop tools for mass contributions: Mbabel and Import-500px
    • A report about the Wikidata workshop held at the International Federation of Library Associations Conference in Kuala Lampur
    • A report discussing increasing interest for mapping the Portugeuse National Library data with Wikidata
    • More information on the recently funded WMSE Projects
    • And, of course, the Wikidata Report highlights
  • Crotos: a project on visual artworks powered by Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons
  • Wikidata Query Service recipe: qualifiers and the Greek alphabet

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Linking knowledge organization systems via Wikidata Presentation at DCMI conference in Porto, by Jneubert
  • Senses for lexicographical data will be deployed on October 18th
  • The final release of OpenRefine 3.0 is out.
  • Collection Explorer, a Wikidata-driven tool bringing together collection data from the Ashmolean Museum, the Bodleian Library, and the Pitt Rivers Museum.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: state of conservation, state of use, admission rate, is retracted by, ISO 15919 transliteration, majority opinion by, seed, demonstrates form, usage example, political coalition, Status in the Red List of Threatened Species in the Czech Republic, item inherits value from
    • External identifiers: BGCI garden ID, International Mathematical Olympiad participant ID, Film Indonesia ID, ArhivX LOD, Belvedere object ID, National Trust for Historic Preservation ID, Television Academy Foundation show ID, Playbill production ID, LHW hotel ID, World Travel Awards ID, Relais & Châteaux ID, Nintendo GameID, Académie de Marseille member ID, NPR podcast ID, iTunes podcast ID, Gynopedia place ID, Vocabolario Treccani ID, AnimeClick anime ID, AnimeClick novel ID, AnimeClick character ID, AnimeClick person ID, AnimeClick manga ID, Ex-USSR internal airport code
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Cook Partisan Voting Index, ONS Community codes, Implies (necessary condition), Index herbariorum code, limiting oxygen index, Model item for, Model item, Taxonomic Literature 2 number, Place of devotion, Stadtteilnummer, restriction of, blazon, ENI number, parties, term of venery, root, unicode range, Ġabra lexeme ID, Ultimate Guitar artist ID, inflection class
    • External identifiers: ResearchGate publication ID, Indonesian Basic Data of Primary and Secondary Education ID, AnimeClick drama ID, MobyGames platform ID, Adelphi author ID, UOL Eleições ID, Tourisme et Handicap ID, Qualité Tourisme ID, Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Belgium ID, Northern Ireland Assembly ID, SJPXVII ID, Microsoft Store app ID, CharacTour character ID, re3data repository ID, IGN film ID, Arkivportalen aktor ID, Arkivportalen arkiv ID, Muziekweb performer ID, SPXVI ID, Spectral Database for Organic Compounds ID, LakeNet ID, Álgu ID, Uralonet ID, Geheugen van de VU person ID, Comic Vine ID, Shazam track ID, IANA Root Zone Database ID, ASCE ID, Dxomark ID, PlayStation Store ID, Oqaasileriffik online dictionary ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of caves with prehistoric art (source)
    • Most cited works with Swedish first author (source)
    • Map of events for Wikidata's 6th Birthday (source)
    • Heads of the same state whose family names share the first four letters but are not identical (source)
    • Map of caves containing prehistoric art (source)

• Development
  • Fix a problem with the language of the lemma (phab:T194347)
  • Improving the diffs for Lexemes (phab:T185481)
  • Exclude es-formal and hu-formal from monolingual text codes (phab:T203311, thanks to MarcoAurelio)
  • Implement the contemporary constraint (phab:T141859, thanks to Abiàn)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 17 sep 2018 16:50 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-38

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 Wikimedia Commons mobile app has a new version. Images uploaded using Nearby are now automatically added to the associated Wikidata item. You can browse other images on Commons. You can see your achievements and your upload statistics. It has also fixed some bugs. [66]
• MediaWiki web requests now have a time limit of 60 seconds for GET requests and 200 seconds for POST requests. [67]

Problems

• You could not see the menu on the notifications page on the mobile version. This has now been fixed. [68]

Changes later this week

• Special:AncientPages can hide disambiguation pages. [69]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 September. It will be on all wikis from 20 September (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 19 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The developers are testing new mobile web navigation. You can use it and give feedback.

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17 sep 2018 23:58 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-39

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 preferences form will change to use the standard look. If you see any problems please report them on Phabricator. [70]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 September. It will be on all wikis from 27 September (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 26 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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24 sep 2018 17:23 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #331

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Ayack
  • New request for comments: 2018 administrator policy update
  • Closed request for comments: Adding short code for cryptocurrencies

• Events
  • Past: 19-21 September 2018, New York City: Wikibase workshop at Rhizome
  • Upcoming: IRC office hour, on Tuesday September 25th, from 18:00 to 19:00 (UTC+2, Berlin time) on the channel wikimedia-office

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Supporting Community Events: spotlight on ‘Social Media Exchange’ (SMEX) in Lebanon, by MySociety
  • Using OpenStack to run a custom Wikibase, by Andra Waagmeester
  • Creating linked open data for Victorian shipping registers on the National Library of Wales blog

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The OpenStreetMap wiki enabled Wikibase, to describe OSM tags and keys. Here's what an entry for moveable bridge looks like: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Item:Q104
  • TABernacle, a tool to edit Wikidata on a table view, was rewritten by Magnus Manske

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Index Herbariorum code, model item, perfume note, place of devotion, Taxonomic Literature 2 number, video designer, projection designer, mode of derivation, work hardening strain, tuition fee, foreign transaction fee, trading fee, account charge / subscription fee, borrowing rate, interest rate, JMA Magnitude, official number of town quarter
    • External identifiers: Adelphi author ID, AnimeClick drama ID, Lepidoptera of Belgium ID, CharacTour character ID, Enciclovida ID, IGN film ID, LakeNet ID, Mathematical Reviews journal ID, MobyGames platform ID, Northern Ireland Assembly ID, Norwegian war refugees register ID, re3data repository ID, ResearchGate publication ID, SJPXVII ID, SPXVI ID, Qualité Tourisme ID, Muziekweb Performer ID, Tourisme & Handicap ID, Indonesian Basic Data of Primary and Secondary Education ID, Microsoft Store app ID, Arkivportalen agent ID, Archiveportal archive ID, Preferred Hotels & Resorts hotel ID, Bpk-ID, UOL Eleições ID, Uralonet ID, Álgu ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Spotify show ID, derived from sense, creates, Short Title Catalogus Vlaanderen (STCV) ID, acquisition date, Løøv classification, Non-free artwork image URL, Kompositionsfuge, abbrév., subject lexeme
    • External identifiers: HKCAN ID, Shazam artist ID, Sprockhoff-Nummer, Wikibase Registry ID, GTB database IDs, Depósito Legal ID, Moviepilot.de series ID, Australia and New Zealand Standard Research Classification 2008, IGN series ID, old-computers.com ID, Kunstenpunt productions, tweet ID, Open Food Facts ingredient ID, bazakolejowa.pl railway line ID, SUCA code, VicFlora ID
  • Query examples:
    • Maps and libraries in Boston and Cambridge (source)
    • Timeline of mobile phones (source)
    • Average height of figure skaters by gender and discipline (source)
  • New bot requests: Import and maintain nominal GDP for countries from the World Bank Data API, Create indiscriminately new items, Missing P31, Importing lexemes from en.Wiktionary in specific languages

• Development
  • Work on editing Form statements using the API (phab:T194732)
  • Show the Lemma(s) or Representation(s) when Lexemes or Forms are mentioned in constraint reports (phab:T195315)
  • Add hyphenation for long Lexeme lemmas and representations (phab:T195367)
  • Normalize SPARQL queries (phab:T204122, thanks to Abiàn)
  • Fix a bug on the Query Service about exported query results being different from the displayed result (phab:T195258)
  • Fix a bug on the Query Service about empty map results returning error (phab:T178786)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 25 sep 2018 12:10 (CEST)

The Signpost: 1 October 2018

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

• From the editor: Is this the new normal?

• News and notes: European copyright law moves forward

• In the media: Knowledge under fire

• Discussion report: Interface Admin policy proposal, part 2

• Arbitration report: A quiet month for Arbcom

• Traffic report: John McCain's death generates over 7 million hits, followed by historical low

• Technology report: Paying attention to your mobile

• Gallery: A pat on the back

• Blog: After a catastrophic fire at the National Museum of Brazil, a drive to preserve what knowledge remains

• Recent research: How talk page use has changed since 2005; censorship shocks lead to centralization; is vandalism caused by workplace boredom?

• Humour: Signpost Crossword Puzzle

• Essay: Expressing thanks

Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 1 okt 2018 02:46 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #332

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for comments: P171, When multiple sources are cited for a fact, should IMDB be deleted as one of them when used, Findagrave removed as a source for information, How would you state the number of (rooms, restaurants, suites) in a hotel?, Updating References for External Data

• Events
  • Past: IRC office hour, September 25th
  • Past: Working in a World of (linked, semantic) Open Data. Keynote by User:MartinPoulter at University of Stirling Life in Data Conference, September 28th
  • Wikidata and Wikimedia workshop (30 September) and session about data modeling (2 October) at the CIDOC 2018 Conference of the International Council of Museums, Heraklion, Crete
  • There were three Wikidata-related presentations at the 10th International Conference on Ecological Informatics that took place on 23-28 September in Jena.
  • Upcoming: German-speaking WikiCon, October 3-5 in St Gallen (Switzerland). Several Wikidata-related talks and workshops in the programme.

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Property Path use in Wikidata Queries, by Gregory Todd Williams

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The templates Reasonator and Scholia are available, for linking from en.Wikisource pages to representations of Wikidata items.
  • Wikidata considered unable to support hierarchical search in Structured Data for Commons, see also thread.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: ENI number, inflection class, has inflection class, root, creates lexeme type
    • External identifiers: ASCE Historical Civil Engineering Landmark ID, Comic Vine ID, DxOMark ID, Geheugen van de VU person ID, HKCAN ID, Oqaasileriffik online dictionary ID, IANA Root Zone Database ID, Shazam track ID, Spotify show ID, Shazam artist ID, Sprockhoff Number, Index of Historic Collectors and Dealers of Cubism ID, ANZSRC FoR ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: applies to citizens of, Plot continued in, monument in the near, Sail emblem, São Paulo: os estrangeiros e a construção da cidade ID, reference template for this work, Wikipedia suggested article name, Personal title, stated in reference as, reference vocabulary, OSM zoom level
    • External identifiers: OpenStreetMap wiki ID, Wiki Loves ZEOs ID, Geschützte Objekte in Ostbelgien, ComiXology Creators, War Memorials Online ID, NT Flora ID, Film Indonesia person ID, Sekolah Kita ID, Museu Nacional ID, Annuaire de la magistrature ID
  • Query examples:
    • Bounding boxes for a set of maps
    • Where were UK ambassadors educated? (source)
  • People who received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and were also in the NSDAP (Nazi party) (source)

• Development
  • Fix a bug when the "language of Lemma" box doesn't appear after failed submit of Special:NewLexeme (phab:T194347)
  • Fix the order of elements in Lexeme edit diffs (phab:T185481)
  • Enable constraint checks for Lexemes and Forms (phab:T195828)
  • More work on editing Form Statements using API (phab:T194732)
  • More work on a beta feature for suggestions based on constraints (phab:T202712)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 1 okt 2018 17:00 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-40

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

• Ordinary pages can no longer be loaded as javascript. You could do this using ?action=raw&ctype=text/javascript in the URL. Only fully protected pages in the MediaWiki: namespace or user javascript subpages can be loaded as javascript now. This is for better security. [71][72]

Problems

• New and updated translations from translatewiki.net will not reach the wikis for a while. You can still translate messages on translatewiki.net. The Wikimedia wikis will be updated with the new translations later. This is because of work on the translation system. [73][74]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 3 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the meeting with the Wikimedia Foundation Search Platform team. The meeting will be on 3 October at 15:00 UTC. See how to join if you want to know how the search function works or have questions.

Future changes

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.

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1 okt 2018 19:34 (CEST)

De resultaten van de wereldwijde Wikimedia-enquête van 2018 zijn beschikbaar

Hallo! Een aantal maanden geleden heeft de Wikimedia Foundation je uitgenodigd om een enquête in te vullen over je ervaringen op Wikipedia. Je hebt je aangemeld om de resultaten te ontvangen. Het verslag is nu beschikbaar op Meta-Wiki! We hebben aan de deelnemers 170 vragen gesteld, over onderwerpen als diversiteit, intimidatie, Wikipedia bewerken tegen betaling, Wikimedia-activiteiten, en vele andere.

Lees het verslag of bekijk de video van de presentatie (deze is enkel in het Engels beschikbaar). Geef feedback en commentaar op de overlegpagina van het verslag. Voel je vrij om het verslag te delen op Wikipedia, andere Wikimediaprojecten, of via sociale media. Hartelijk dank!
--EGalvez (WMF)

1 okt 2018 21:56 (CEST)

Schrijfweken Friesland 2018

Vlag Friesland

"It giet oan!"
In 2018 is Leeuwarden/Friesland Culturele Hoofdstad van Europa. Op Wikipedia besteden we hier aandacht aan middels een dubbele lokale schrijfweek over Friesland. Deze vindt plaats van 1 t/m 14 oktober 2018. Doe je mee? Meld je dan aan op de projectpagina en schrijf mee!

Deelnemen & meer informatie · Uit- of inschrijven voor deze mailing - Romaine 2 okt 2018 10:54 (CEST)

Both on Danish-wiki and "Nederlandsk-wiki"?

Hi, there might be some articles in Danish-wiki that might need some improvements, imported from "nederlansk-wiki" articles.
There might be some article on Danish-wiki that might have information that should be imported to Nederlandsk-wiki.
Perhaps you and I should in the near future discuss what wiki-articles on Danish and nederlandsk, are of interest to you and of interest to me.
For most parts of the year, I am active on nynorsk-wiki and Danish-wiki. (I am also one of the greatest fans of Simple English Wikipedia.) Regards! Sju hav (overleg) 3 okt 2018 22:14 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-41

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 Education Program extension was removed from all Wikimedia projects. You can use the Programs and Events Dashboard or the Fountain instead. [75]

Problems

• There was a problem when you copied and pasted from a table with the visual editor. It could add href where it shouldn't be. This has now been fixed. [76]

Changes later this week

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.
• Because of the data centre test there will be no new version of MediaWiki this week. Changes for this week will come next week instead.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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9 okt 2018 01:38 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #333

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Fuzheado, باسم

• Events
  • 5-7 October, St.Gallen (Switzerland): WikiCon 2018 of the German-speaking Wikimedia community, with keynote Wikidata as a Semantic Web game changer
  • 5-7 October, Grenoble (France): WikiConvention francophone 2018, with keynote:
    • Quarry et Query : introduction à SQL et SPARQL
    • GLAM & Wikimedia : bilan des projets en cours en Suisse et perspectives avec Wikidata
    • Quoi de neuf sur Wikidata ?
    • Éditer une œuvre d'art sur Wikidata, et plus si affinités
  • 16 October, online: Using Wikibase as a platform for library linked data management and discovery
  • 29 October, São Paulo: Wikidata Lab XI: Structuring wikiprojects

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Wikidata: «Das spannendste Projekt, das ich je gesehen habe» (German) in the Swiss newspaper Tagblatt
  • SPNHC & TDWG Conference 2018 — blog post on a talk (slides, speaker notes) about using Wikimedia projects and materials from the Biodiversity Heritage Library and other sources to collect information regarding New Zealand's biodiversity
  • Wikidata Map October 2018 by Addshore
  • Our man in Havana (or, Q56761118) by Andrew Gray

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• wikidata-cli new features:
  • wd data --format ttl: dump entities in rdf/ttl
  • wd convert: convert batches of external ids to Wikidata ids and vice versa
• Structured Data on Commons: a search prototype is available for testing. There is a page on Commons with information about testing and leaving feedback.
• Profiling Wikidata — a Class-Facet-Attribute Completeness Profiling System for Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: limiting oxygen index, plot continued in, Vicat softening point, Unicode range
    • External identifiers: Lyrically artist ID, Moviepilot.de series ID, Spectral Database for Organic Compounds ID, Ultimate Guitar artist ID, Ġabra lexeme ID, Open Food Facts ingredient ID, bazakolejowa.pl railway line ID, IGN series ID, tweet ID, Short Title Catalogue Flanders (STCV), Flanders Arts Institute production ID, old-computers.com ID, Oudnederlands Woordenboek GTB ID, Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek GTB ID, Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek GTB ID, Film Indonesia person ID, Protected objects Ostbelgien ID, North America PlayStation Store ID, VicFlora ID, SUCA code, CMI person ID, São Paulo: os estrangeiros e a construção da cidade ID, ComiXology creator ID, Annuaire de la magistrature ID, NT Flora ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: animacy, distributary, human position in artwork, does not have quality, (de)evolution method, happened to, depicted part, adjective, hyponym, nation-state tradition, requires form, Norwegian Nationaltheatret actor ID, location of sense usage, Medierådet rating, broad synonym, measured to, Type properties, shrinkage, Public presentation, carbon footprint
    • External identifiers: Inventory of the Archaeological and Paleontological Heritage of Catalonia, MIAR ID, V.League ID, Japan Professional Basketball League ID, Women's Japan Basketball League, SAGE journal ID, Elsevier journal ID, N° CPPAP, Deezer show ID, LUBW Schutzgebiets-Nr, Disney A to Z ID, RBF athlete ID, Europe PlayStation Store ID, Japan PlayStation Store ID, Encyclopedia Virginia ID, Armiarma ID
  • Query examples:
    • Characters from the Mario franchise by games in which they appear (source)
    • Nobel Prize winners who also has been TED speakers (source)

• Development
  • Fix bugs on editing statements on new Forms using the API (phab:T194732)
  • Check constraint violations on statements on Forms and Senses when saving a statement (phab:T195829)
  • Fix an issue with Wikibase and deployments (phab:T206161)
  • Improve the gloss language error message (phab:T205528)
  • Make the ArticlePlaceholder use our API instead of wb_terms (phab:T195752)
  • Improve sorting of forms, senses and glosses (phab:T176405, phab:T203002, phab:T203459)
  • Work on making Sense statement group Ids unique (phab:T204936)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 9 okt 2018 13:47 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #334

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

• Events
  • 8-12 October, Monterey: International Semantic Web Conference 2018, with lots of praise for Wikidata
  • 11-12 October, Montreal: FORCE 2018 Conference, with sessions on Wikidata and Wikibase and Wikidata and WikiCite

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Ontological Modelling in Wikidata, talk and slides by Markus Krötzsch
  • Wikidata x ConedaKOR: A use case for digital art history (in German), on integrating Wikidata with an art history database
  • From Spreadsheet to Wikidata with QuickStatements, by Charles Matthews on WMUK's blog

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • A new Wikidata game has been created to suggest corrections for some constraints violations. These corrections are learned from the Wikidata edit history.
  • A new OpenRefine tutorial was published, showing how to use third-party reconciliable data sources to import data in Wikidata.
  • A prototype for Mix'n'Match Version 2 is available for testing; it uses Wikibase.
  • We have a new admin onboard, welcome Fuzheado!

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: depicted part, sail emblem, reference vocabulary
    • External identifiers: Museu Nacional ID, Sekolah Kita ID, War Memorials Online ID, ID of Inventory of the Archaeological and Paleontological Heritage of Catalonia, Women's Japan Basketball League ID, V.League ID, Japan Professional Basketball League ID, Elsevier journal ID, Norwegian Nationaltheatret actor ID, LUBW Protected Area No, SAGE journal ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: tribus, embodied energy, water footprint, storage capacity (ROM), Pixel resolution, Category for films in this language, annual number of weddings, biobased content weight percentage, topic's main Wikimedia WikiProject, recycled content weight percentage, taxa found, recycling code, attenuation coefficient, Kit manifacturer
    • External identifiers: Getty Iconography Authority ID, Springer journal ID, Espace prépas author ID, Australian Plant name Index identifier, Indiancine.ma film ID, Indiancine.ma person ID
  • Query examples:
    • Age of receivers of Nobel Prize winners in Literature (source)
    • Places of birth of Nobel prizes winners per decade ([ source])
    • Things named after Ada Lovelace (source)

• Development
  • Help fixing the issues after data center switch (phab:T206743)
  • Look at a regression in Lexeme code (not passing lemma language via URL) (phab:T205864)
  • Make the ArticlePlaceholder use our API instead of wb_terms (phab:T195752)
  • Improve sorting of forms, senses and glosses (phab:T176405, phab:T203002, phab:T203459)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15 okt 2018 16:24 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-42

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

• Some pages, edits and users disappeared for a short while after the server switch. Missing content and users was fixed within a day. Some preferences and other things might take a few more days to fix. [77]
• Wikis are updated with new and updated translations from translatewiki.net again. This will happen once a week. The developers are working on fixing the problem so we can have translation updates more often again. [78]

Changes later this week

• When you create an abuse filter that prevents edits you can now write a specific error message for it. Before this all abuse filters that prevented edits had the same error message. [79]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 October. It will be on all wikis from 18 October (calendar).

Meetings

• There will be no more meetings with the Editing team. This is because not enough Wikimedians were interested. To tell developers which bugs you think are the most important you can use Phabricator as normal. [80]
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16 okt 2018 00:40 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #335

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Adopt a username policy

• Events
  • A Wikidata workshop will be led by Shani Evenstein, in collaboration with Wikimedia Israel & and the Israel Internet Association, on 18th & 25th of October in Tel Aviv. The first meeting will be dedicated to an introduction and adding information to WD, and the second meeting will focus on querying & SPARQL.
  • An Introduction to Wikidata by Harmonia Amanda, an Introduction to Wikibase by Sandra Müllrick and a Wikicite workshop by Miriam Redi at the Wiki Techstorm in the Dutch National Library in the Hague on the 26th & 27th of October
  • Many events to celebrate Wikidata's birthday around the world. You can check the full list and the map to find one near you

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Die vergessene fünfte Partnerstadt (German), Der Landbote, October 18, 2018. Press article about the discoverage of Winterthur's sister city Ontario thanks to Wikidata, which only became official in Ontario in the year 1982, while it got forgotten in Winterthur.
  • Semantische Suchabfragen mit der Linked Open Data Cloud generieren (German), on SocietyByte
  • La documentation d’expositions sur Wikidata (French) by Shonagon

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • A program to train new Wikidata trainers (in German) will be run in November 2018 in Berlin, Cologne and Vienna. Registration is open until October 28th.
  • A new academic course featuring Wikidata opened on October 15th at Tel Aviv University. The elective is called "From Web 2.0 to Web 3.0, from Wikipedia to Wikidata" and it's the 1st for-credit course in the world to focus on Wikidata! The course is available to all undergraduate students at TAU, from all disciplines, and is led by educator & Wikimedian Shani Evenstein.
  • Lexicographical data can now be queried with the Query Service
  • Lexicographical Data now includes Senses
  • A beta feature for entity suggestions based on constraints
  • Planned RDF ontology prefix change for RDF exports and dumps
  • You can still help ORES to be smarter in detecting vandalism. Take a few minutes to check some edits
  • Change on QuickStatements: all your new QuickStatements batch job edits will now be done under your own account, rather than QuickStatementsBot (thanks to Lucas)
  • Wikidata Image Positions, showing the relative position of depicted elements within the images of items (example, documentation)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Medierådet rating, translation, synonym, antonym, troponym of, false friend, Wikidata property example for senses, classifier, Sandbox-Sense, derived from sense, annual number of weddings
    • External identifiers: CPPAP ID, RBF athlete ID, Europe PlayStation Store ID, Encyclopedia Virginia ID, Springer journal ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: compressive modulus of elasticity, Best result in tournament, satisfaction rate, league system, ratified by, place of disappearance, exact synonym, measured to, measured from, measured include, measured exclude, measured at, usage example, Coordinates in WKT, flexural strain at break
    • External identifiers: Brasiliana Iconográfica ID, North America Microsoft Store ID, Facebook post ID, Movies Anywhere ID, Center for Biological Diversity ID, Muck Rack journalist ID, Museum Universe Data File identification number, Salons ID, Agoda hotel ID, Techopedia ID, Internet Pinball Database ID, Handbook of Texas ID, Encyclopedia of Alabama ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of lines and stations of the Amsterdam metro (source)
    • Workplaces of society portrait painter Philip de Laszlo, traced on a map (source)
    • What other relationships do people have with their spouses? (source)
    • Signatures of French-speaking female authors (source)
    • Underground lines of London (source)

• Development
  • JSON-LD is now on beta
  • Work on a issue impacting edit tags for admins (phab:T207313)
  • Turn on Senses for 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
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 22 okt 2018 15:27 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-43

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

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 October. It will be on all wikis from 25 October (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 24 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Community Wishlist Survey begins on 29 October. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 29 October to 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

23 okt 2018 01:11 (CEST)

Books & Bytes, Issue 30

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 30, August – Septmeber 2018

• Library Card translation
• Spotlight: 1Lib1Ref spreads to the Southern Hemisphere and beyond
• Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
• Global branches update
• Bytes in brief

French version of Books & Bytes is now available in meta!
Read the full newsletter

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --MediaWiki message delivery (overleg) 25 okt 2018 05:43 (CEST)

The Signpost: 28 October 2018

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

• From the editors October original: The Signpost is still afloat, just barely

• Op-ed: Wikipedia's Strickland affair

• News and notes: WMF gets a million bucks

• In the media: Bans, celebs, and bias

• Discussion report: Mediation Committee and proposed deletion reform

• Traffic report: Unsurprisingly, sport leads the field – or the ring

• Technology report: Bots galore!

• Special report: NPP needs you

• Special report 2: Now Wikidata is six

• In focus: Alexa

• Gallery: Out of this world!

• Recent research: Wikimedia Commons worth $28.9 billion

• Humour: Talk page humour

• Opinion: Strickland incident

• From the archives: The Gardner Interview

Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 28 okt 2018 20:11 (CET)

Tech News: 2018-44

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

Recent changes

• You can post proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals until 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.
• The wikis now have a content security policy report. This means that you might get a warning in your javascript console when you load external resources in your user scripts. For security reasons it is recommended that you don't do this. It might not be possible to load external resources in your scripts in the future. [81]

Problems

• Your watchlist can show which changes you have already seen. This did not work for a few days. It has been fixed. [82]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 October. It will be on all wikis from 1 November (calendar).
• The 2006 wikitext editor is no longer available. It will be removed from Special:Preferences. It has not been the standard editor for a long time. It was replaced by the 2010 wikitext editor. [83][84]

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 31 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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29 okt 2018 21:08 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #336

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Changes in email property, Datatype of P667
  • Closed request for comments: Close-out of statements formerly using P794

• Events
  • Plenty of Wikidata 6th birthday events happen all around the world. You can check the Commons category and the hashtag #WikidataBirthday on social networks.
  • Past: Wikimedia Technical Conference, October 22-25

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • WikibaseNYC conference explores the frontier of linked open data infrastructure &report on the Wikibase workshop that took place on September 19-21 in New Yor City
  • Now Wikidata is 6, by Charles Matthews

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Proposal on on how to answer newcomers on help pages. Feel free to give feedback on the talk page.
  • Fork-Awesome now ships with a Wikidata icon
  • Presents from the community for the Wikidata 6th birthday:
    • Banner for Wikidata birthday events by KannanVM
    • Profiling Wikidata (announcement, documentation)
    • Birthday User Template for userpage
    • List of Wikidata & GLAM usecases, by Beat Eastermann
    • QuickStatements v2 now supports lexicographical data
    • DerDieDas, a game to practice German articles based on lexicographical data, by Auregann
    • CSV to QuickStatements now fully compatible with QuickStatements v2
    • Possibility to query Lexemes in the Query Service
    • Senses for lexicographical data
    • Beta feature: suggestions based on constraints
    • Dedicated Dashboard, another tool to improve the data quality in Wikidata, by Envlh
    • cookiecutter-toolforge, a template to easily create tools, by Lucas Werkmeister
    • WDFS: Mount Wikidata as a filesystem, by MichaelSchoenitzer
    • Wikidata Comparison Tool

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: carbon footprint, attenuation coefficient, compressive modulus of elasticity, recycling code, kit supplier, category for films in this language, stated in reference as, distributary, water footprint, applies to people, flexural strain at break, body pose or movement
    • External identifiers: APNI ID, Literaturaren Zubitegia ID, Getty Iconography Authority ID, Indiancine.ma film ID, Deezer show ID, Indiancine.ma person ID, Movies Anywhere ID, Japan PlayStation Store ID, WikiArt ID, Center for Biological Diversity ID, Brasiliana Iconográfica ID, Muck Rack journalist ID, Museum Universe Data File ID, Salons ID, Agoda hotel ID, Techopedia ID, Encyclopedia of Alabama ID, Internet Pinball Database ID, California Office of Historic Preservation ID, Encyclopedia of Appalachia ID, Handbook of Texas ID, Tennessee Encyclopedia ID, CanalPlan AC place ID, SeaLifeBase ID, Species at Risk public registry ID, d'Art d'Art ! ID, Hymenoptera Online taxon ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: ENADE IGC continuous, INEP IGC discrete, Digital representation of, Container title, Systematic Catalog of Culicidae ID, Plant Parasites of Europe ID, date of opening, uses capitalization for, phase, Trainer von Sportmannschaft, research site
    • External identifiers: New York Times short URL, ECOS ID, IGF entrant ID, Clé des langues ID, CMS ID, Hypericum MySpecies ID, ResearchGate author ID, Oiseaux.net ID, Missouri Botanical Garden ID, Steere Herbarium ID, Wild Herps ID, Sea Slug Forum ID, OSF Online ID, MNHN ID, Neotropical Birds ID, GRIN ID, Birds of America ID, Echinoid Directory ID, AFD ID, FEIS ID, New Zealand Birds Online ID, BirdLife Australia ID, NOAA Fisheries Species Directory ID, Espèces Envahissantes Outre-mer ID, AFAS author ID, Prosopomaths ID, ARD Mediathek ID, GT IBMA ID, Mantodea Species File ID, Coreoidea Species File ID, Cockroach Species File ID, Red List of South African Plants ID, Biographie vosgienne ID, Larousse ID, MoEML ID, Scoresway basketball person ID, Scoresway volleyball person ID, Scoresway ice hockey person ID, Scoresway rugby person ID, Scoresway baseball person ID, Polish Olympic Committee, GameFAQs platform ID, DCMOTO identifier, BirdLife International IBA ID, British Museum bioID, Discogs composition ID, Discogs track ID, NYC Building Identification Number (BIN), Cineuropa person ID, RIA Novosti reference, The Guardian article ID
  • Query examples:
    • Number of properties by datatype, with a (random) example property (source)
    • Number of depicted subjects by gender (source)
    • People at Svensktöversättarlexikon missing a LIBRISXL authority record ordered by number of articles in Wikipedia (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Wikidata:WikiProject Africa, Wikidata:WikiProject Open Government Data
  • Newest database reports: indirect translation of lexemes

• Development
  • Several developers and members of the team attended to the Wikimedia Technical Conference
  • Fix an issue with interwikilinks and connection between Wikidata and sister projects (phab:T208077, phab:T208124)
  • Refactor Wikibase so that it can use alternative termbox views (phab:T206863)
  • Pass the entity data on the client side (phab:T207462) and server side (phab:T207467)
  • Investigate an error on some Wikidata pages (phab:T208142)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 30 okt 2018 11:57 (CET)

Tech News: 2018-45

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 use TemplateWizard to edit templates. This works only with the 2010 wikitext editor and not in the visual editor or the 2017 wikitext editor. If you click on you can enter the information in a pop-up. You can turn on TemplateWizard in your beta feature preferences. [85]

Changes later this week

• You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. The interface for the two-column edit conflict will change. You can read more.
• When you edit with the visual editor you can use the "Automatic" citation tab. This helps you generate citations. You will now be able to write plain text citations or the title of a journal article or a book in this tab. This will search the Crossref and WorldCat databases and add the top result. [86]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 November. It will be on all wikis from 8 November (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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5 nov 2018 18:29 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #337

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

• Events
  • Lots of parties and get-togethers for Wikidata's 6th birthday
  • GLAM Wiki 2018, 3-5 November 2018 in Tel Aviv, had a number of sessions about Wikidata

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • "Wikidata and GLAM catalogues: another round-up" by Martin Poulter
  • What Dutch GLAMs want from Wikidata

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata's Sixth Birthday \o/ Check out the well wishes and presents.
  • The Community Wishlist Survey is now open, including a Wikidata category. Proposal phase is running until November 11th.
  • New designs posted for structured copyright and licensing based off of Wikidata for Structured Data on Commons. Please visit the page on Commons and leave your feedback.
  • CompareIT a new comparison tool, driven by Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: INEP IGC continuous score, demonstrates sense, permeation, embodied energy, biobased content weight percentage
    • External identifiers: ResearchGate author ID, Clé des langues ID, Oiseaux.net ID, Hypericum MySpecies ID, ECOS ID, IGF entrant ID, CMS ID, Plant Finder ID, Steere Herbarium ID, Wild Herps ID, ProsopoMaths ID, AFAS author ID, AFD ID, BirdLife Australia ID, John J. Audubon's Birds of America ID, Echinoid Directory ID, Espèces Envahissantes Outre-mer ID, FEIS ID, Global Raptor Information Network ID, MNHN taxon ID, Neotropical Birds ID, New Zealand Birds Online ID, NOAA Fisheries Species Directory ID, OSF Online ID, Sea Slug Forum ID, Cockroach Species File ID, Coreoidea Species File ID, GT IBMA ID, Mantodea Species File ID, Red List of South African Plants ID, Systematic Catalog of Culicidae ID, Larousse ID, Biographie vosgienne ID, MoEML ID, Plant Parasites of Europe ID, Scoresway baseball person ID, Scoresway basketball person ID, Scoresway ice hockey person ID, Scoresway rugby person ID, Scoresway volleyball person ID, ARD Mediathek ID, DCMOTO identifier, BirdLife International IBA ID, Polish Olympic Committee ID, British Museum bioID, GameFAQs platform ID, Discogs track ID, Discogs composition ID, RIA Novosti reference
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: dramaturg, DEFAULTSORT, billed artist, also display sitelinks for, Objektnummer, Winterthur Glossar URL, Mushroom Observer ID, IIIF manifest, Category for players of a club, Notable print, Observation.org ID, maintenance tag, chord progression, music album, volunteers
    • External identifiers: Who's on First ID (WOFID), MGG Online ID, Caselaw Access Project case ID, Map of Life ID, AllPowerlifting.com person ID, AfroMoths ID, FloraWeb ID, Info Flora ID, FLOW ID, YÖK Academic Profile ID, Sotheby's ID, Michigan Flora ID
  • Query examples:
    • Timeline of companies acquired by Red Hat (source)
    • Video game characters named after humans (source)
    • People who received an award on the day of their death (source)
    • Things named after Tux, as described in (source)

• Development
  • Helped get MediaInfo deployed on Commons
  • Reduced load on the query service from the constraint checks (phabricator:T204469)
  • Worked on getting constraints checks run regularly in the background so their results are complete in the query service (phabricator:T204714)
  • Enabled access to arbitrary items and properties for Wiktionaries
  • Working on infrastructure parts of the new termbox (the one showing labels, descriptions and aliases) on mobile

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 6 nov 2018 00:37 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #338

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for comments: Political alliance vs P4100, Changes to P2737 and P2738, Why do we have an item for dogs and another one for Canis lupus familiaris?, start time / end time vs. publication date of 1st / last episode, Mapping and improving the data import process, Familypedia links removed for "described at URL", Allow the creation of links to redirects in Wikidata

• Events
  • Past: Several Wikidata-related presentations at International Data Week from November 5-8 in Gaborone:
    • Wikidata and Wikibase as global platforms for democratizing data publishing
    • WikiCite and Scholia - a Linked Open Data approach to exploring the scholarly literature and related resources
    • A wiki approach to collecting, curating and managing citizen science data
    • A wiki perspective on an Open Science Commons
  • Past: Several Wikidata-related presentations at GLAMWiki conference, including:
    • Wikidata — what's new?
    • Open your structured GLAM data with Wikibase — install your own instance of the technology behind Wikidata
  • Incoming: a new Illuminatis Data Mining workshop on 16-17 November in Gotha
  • Incoming: Wikidata workshop in Vienna
  • Incoming: Wikidata train the trainers in Cologne, Berlin and Vienna (in German)

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Incoming partnership with the German National Library by Jens Ohlig (in German)
  • How Wikidata Is Solving Its Chicken-or-Egg-Problem in the Field of Cultural Heritage, by Beat Eastermann

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • wikitable.info is a visualization of Wikidata items in HTML tables in many languages, easy to print and export. Feedback goes to Germartin1
  • OpenRefine 3.1 beta is out, with many fixes and improvements to the Wikidata integration suggested by the community.
  • There's a new Wikidata game: Commons category matches

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: location of sense usage, dramaturge, head coach of sports team, beer bitterness, beer color, INEP IGC discrete grade, clinical trial phase, maintained by WikiProject, uses capitalization for
    • External identifiers: NYC Building Identification Number (BIN), Cineuropa person ID, The Guardian article ID, Caselaw Access Project case ID, MGG Online ID, Map of Life ID, AfroMoths ID, FloraWeb ID, FLOW ID, AllPowerlifting.com person ID, Info Flora ID, YÖK Academic Profile ID, Mushroom Observer ID, Schleswig-Holstein object ID, Michigan Flora ID, Observation.org ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Vice, sense associated with form, declared patrimony, season ends, inscription mentions, DanNet 2.2 word ID, Study fees, HASC, exchange rate, Verspreidingsatlas.nl ID
    • External identifiers: AllMusic release ID, DBU profile, MusicNotes product ID, MusicNotes song ID, Nobel Prize in Literature ID, Code de l'Autorité de l'Aviation Civile argentine, Playbill venue ID, Digital Flora of Central Africa ID, Portal to the Flora of Italy ID, Envanter.gov.tr Monument ID, B3Kat Joint Union Catalogue, Santiebeati ID, Soccerway team ID, identifiant Littera, Letterboxd actor ID, Letterboxd film ID, Threatened Species Link ID, VD 18 ID, Siamzone film ID, Thaifilm ID, National Portrait Gallery (United States) object ID, Newseum newspaper front page ID, Playbill person ID, SWH Release ID, APA ID, Virtual Guide to the Flora of Mongolia ID, identifiant À nos grands hommes, BioOne ID, Academy Awards Database film ID
  • Query examples:
    • Currently happening figure skating competitions (source)
    • Software developed by groups within Google (source)
    • Knowledge organization systems (source)
    • Most common election days by country (source)

• Development
  • Displaying Senses before Forms (phab:T208592)
  • Making quality constraints play nicer with the Query Service
  • Putting in the ground work to have quality checks run in jobs
  • Enabling arbritrary access on oldwikisource
  • Allowing configuration of the licence in .ttl output
  • Configuration of more string limits, such as URL and mono / multilingual texts
  • Moving wdqs frontend to a blubber deployment (phab:T192006)
  • Asserting a users name so they can't edit when accidently logged out (phab:T124451)
  • Showcase a termbox placeholder in the mobile frontend of m.wikidata.org (phab:T206200)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 12 nov 2018 16:23 (CET)

Tech News: 2018-46

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

• Some old mobile browsers can use the watchlist again. This has not worked for a while. These browsers are called grade C browsers. This helps for example Windows Phone 8.1 with Internet Explorer and Lumia 535 with Windows 10. [87]

Problems

• You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. Users who use this view saw the edit conflict resolution page when they wanted to see a preview. This has been fixed. [88][89][90]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 November. It will be on all wikis from 15 November (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 14 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You can use the content translation tool to translate articles. The developers are working on a new version. One of the changes will be a maintenance category. Articles where users add a lot of text from machine translation without changing it will be in that category. This is so the community can review it. The users will also have been warned before they publish the article that it has a lot of unchanged text from machine translations. [91]

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12 nov 2018 20:21 (CET)

Tech News: 2018-47

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 vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can vote until 30 November.
• There is an A/B test for sameAs data. This is to make it easier to find the right information with a search engine. This changes the metadata for a wiki page. It doesn't change how the page looks. [92]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia wikis use templates to show readers there are problems with the content on some pages. For example if there are no sources or the page needs to be rewritten. The mobile website will soon show more information when you use these templates. Some templates may need to be updated. [93]
• The Education Program extension was removed from all Wikimedia projects. The database tables used by the extension will be archived. This will happen in a month. If you want the information on your wiki you should move it to a normal wiki page. [94]

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20 nov 2018 00:28 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #339

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

• Events
  • Baltic Audiovisual Archives Council Conference in Tallinn, Estonia - November 7, 2018. Sandra F. gave a keynote on GLAM-Wiki projects, Wikidata and Structured Data on Commons.
  • Museum Computer Network conference in Denver, Colorado - November 14, 2018. - Andrew Lih gave a presentation, A First Date with Wikidata
  • Wikicite on 27-29 November 2018: the program is published

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • A new tool to display Wikimedia Commons categories (and Wikipedia/Wikidata tags) with coordinates on the OSM map
  • The Association of Research Libraries published the draft of a Wikidata Task Force White Paper on how libraries and Wikidata/ Wikibase con join forces aroud linked open data for both library discovery systems and Wikipedia, and advancing a diversity and inclusion agenda in the cultures of both libraries and Wikimedia. The draft is open for public comment until 30 November.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Winterthur Glossar URL, IIIF manifest, category for members of a team, chord progression, season ends, number of volunteers
    • External identifiers: DBU playerprofile, AllMusic release ID, MusicNotes product ID, Playbill venue ID, Portal to the Flora of Italy ID, Digital Flora of Central Africa ID, Envanter.gov.tr Monument ID, Letterboxd actor ID, Argentinean NCAA Airport code, MusicNotes song ID, B3Kat dataset ID, Sotheby's person ID, Santiebeati ID, Letterboxd film ID, Threatened Species Link ID, Littera ID, Soccerway team ID, Playbill person ID, Siamzone film ID, Thaifilm ID, VD 18 ID, Newseum newspaper front page ID, APA ID, SWH Release ID, Virtual Guide to the Flora of Mongolia ID, DanNet 2.2 word ID, À nos grands hommes ID, Verspreidingsatlas.nl ID, BioOne journal ID, ortsnamen.ch ID, Academy Awards Database film ID, The Hendon Mob ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: work quoted textually, verbally or lyrically, work whose melody is quoted, excerpt, exonym, Danmarks Statistiks filmkode, text features, mission statement, number of lines, number of stations, funding scheme, noun class, eponymous category, taxa protected, river bank, tautomer of, Global Startup Ecosystem Ranking, proper name of astronomical object, research site
    • External identifiers: Corpus typographique français ID, Academy Awards Database nominee ID, World Poker Tour ID, ANICA ID, r-hockey.ru person ID, Sotheby's Museum Network ID, Académie d'Arles member ID, Google News publication ID, ALCA ID, Luding editor ID, BoardGeekGame editor ID, Atlas of Florida Plants ID, British Executions ID, System16 identifier, BLR ID, LEGO set ID, LEGO design ID, LEGO element ID, NAS ID, Invasive Plant Atlas of the United States ID, Welsh Book Trade Info ID, Sega Saturn game ID, TWAS Fellow ID, Bitraga author ID, Bitraga work ID, EUNIS ID, Cal-IPC ID, eFloraSA id, Dimensions Publication ID, Dimensions Source ID, Dimensions Author ID, Microsoft Academic Work ID, Microsoft Academic Source ID, Microsoft Academic Author ID, Microsoft Academic Institution ID
  • Query examples:
    • Battles with location and date in Wikidata (source)
    • Pictures depicting a kiss with IIIF manifest (source)
    • Software-related companies founded by women (source)
    • Films based on video games (source)
  • Newest database reports: Vasily
  • Showcase items: Fugger

• Development
  • Fixed a bug that was saving the statement too early when trying to add a qualifier with the keyboard (phab:T154869)
  • Made changes to disallow edits (until the user reloads) if they accidentally get logged out. (phab:T124451)
  • Turn the new change tag back on wikidatawiki (phab:T208846)
  • Better linting against things that don't work in IE11
  • Fixed the wdqs-frontend docker image (phab:T208681, phab:T209206)
  • Fixed html elements in the table result of wdqs (phab:T207257, thanks to user:Frog23)
  • Getting ontology changes deployed to wikiba.se
  • Using maplink or mapframe to view coords on wikidata (phab:T184933)
  • Consistent capitalization of Lexeme/Form/Sense/Item/Property in UI messages
  • Make Lexemes appear in global usage of Commons files (phab:T204066)
  • Work on a new interface for the termbox on mobile (phab:T207150)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 20 nov 2018 12:18 (CET)

Sædding versus Sædden

Dag Rodejong,

mag ik jou als Denemarken-kenner vragen om eens te kijken naar deze discussie? Op meerdere artikelen worden de namen Sædding en Sædden met elkaar verward, en er blijken ook nog eens meerdere plaatsen te zijn met deze namen. Ik heb, zoals je kunt lezen, de aanmaker verzocht om hierin meer helderheid te scheppen, maar op de een of andere manier lijkt hij maar niet te begrijpen wat het probleem nou is. Ik kom er dus gewoon niet verder mee, en zelf weet ik te weinig van deze materie om er iets aan te kunnen doen.
Ik hoop dat jij erin zult slagen om deze knoop te ontwarren. Bij voorbaat al mijn hartelijke dank, Erik Wannee (overleg) 22 nov 2018 18:29 (CET)

Rodejong heeft hier al bijna een half jaar geen enkele bewerking meer gedaan. Wellicht keert hij op korte termijn niet terug, en heeft deze vraag dus ook niet echt heel veel zin? De Wikischim (overleg) 23 nov 2018 23:16 (CET)

Niet geschoten is altijd mis. En ik ken zo 1-2-3 geen andere persoon van wie ik verwacht dat hij/zij deze vraag zou kunnen beantwoorden. Dus ik hoop dat Rodejong de vraag uiteindelijk wel onder ogen komt. Erik Wannee (overleg) 23 nov 2018 23:21 (CET)

Tech News: 2018-48

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

• On wikis with translatable pages you could create a mess when you moved a page that had translatable subpages. A subpage is when you use / to create a new page: /wiki/Page/Subpage. The subpages would be moved but not the translations. The subpages are no longer automatically be moved. This is to make it safer to move pages. [95]

Changes later this week

• The advanced search interface will be available by default on all Wikimedia wikis. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. It's already active on German, Farsi, Arabic and Hungarian Wikipedia. [96]
• Special:UnusedCategories show empty categories with no files or other categories. You can soon choose to not show soft redirect categories or some maintenance categories there. You can do this with the magic word __EXPECTUNUSEDCATEGORY__. [97]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 November. It will be on all wikis from 29 November (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 28 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The mw.util.jsMessage() function was deprecated in 2012. It will be removed next week. Look for the warning Use of "mw.util.jsMessage" is deprecated in the JavaScript console to know if you use an affected script or gadget. If you are a gadget maintainer you should check if your JavaScript code contains mw.util.jsMessage. There is a migration guide. It explains how to use mw.notify instead. [98]

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26 nov 2018 23:22 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #340

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Referencing websites: how do we store the website title?, Many surname items had been un merged because of failure to communicate.

• Events
  • Past: women editathon in Mexico City, November 24th
  • Past: Wikidata "Train the trainers" workshop in Berlin, November 23th-25th
  • Running: WikiCite 2018, November 27th-29th, Berkeley, California, USA. Some livestream will be provided on Youtube
  • Upcoming: Wikidata "Train the trainers" workshop in Vienna, November 30th-December 2nd
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, with a focus on Open Refine, January 15th

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Wikidata-related videos during GLAMwiki conference:
    • Wikidata — What's new - Jens Ohlig
    • A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners - Asaf Bartov
    • SPARQL workshop - Maarten Dammers
    • Engaging GLAM institutions with Wikidata - Sharing Experiences and Techniques - Andrew Lih
    • Sum of all Paintings and Open Data - Maarten Dammers
    • Wikidata’s role in metadata creation and reuse workflows in libraries - Michelle Futornick
    • Open your structured GLAM data with Wikibase — install your own instance of the technology behind Wikidata - Jens Ohlig
    • Impact and potential of structured data on Wikimedia projects for the GLAM sector - Sandra Fauconnier
    • Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons - Introduction and panel of Wikimedia pilots
  • Introduction to Wikidata in 7min by Asaf Bartov
  • Introduction to Wikidata by Lydia Pintscher in 20min, during Shani Evenstein's university course about Wikidata

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata Senses (documentation), new tool by User:Vesihiisi to add senses to lexemes
  • The Swedish National Heritage Board has started working on a project, related to Structured Data on Commons, that focuses on ways to feed back improved (crowdsourced) metadata to cultural institutions who contribute media files to Wikimedia Commons.
    • Please alert your GLAM partners to a new survey about crowdsourcing, metadata and Wikimedia Commons, which informs the research for this project!
  • Scribe, a project to support under-resourced Wikipedias based on Wikidata's content, has been proposed for a grant
  • Tool to convert Wikibase JSON to RDF without storing it in a repository
  • Call for paper for the data quality workshop in Berlin on January 18th. Open until December 3rd

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: running mate, research site, quotes work
    • External identifiers: World Poker Tour player ID, GLAMOS glacier ID, Academy Awards Database nominee ID, ANICA ID, National Portrait Gallery (United States) object ID, r-hockey.ru person ID, Sotheby's Museum Network ID, MNAV artist ID, Google News publication ID, ALCA author ID, Atlas of Florida Plants ID, BoardGeekGame game publisher ID, Invasive Plant Atlas of the United States ID, Luding game publisher ID, NAS ID, Depósito Legal ID, Corpus typographique français ID, British Executions ID, Bantu Lexical Reconstructions ID, Welsh Book Trade Info ID, System16 identifier, Académie d'Arles member ID, Sega Saturn game ID, Bitraga author ID, TWAS Fellow ID, Bitraga work ID, Cal-IPC ID, EUNIS ID, Dimensions Author ID, Dimensions Publication ID, Dimensions Source ID, Disney A to Z ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: language use, has variant, has version, rationale text, HABS ID, Wikia Article URL, CNPJ
    • External identifiers: AJOL ID, Microsoft Academic Source ID, GameFAQs company ID, BDFA player ID, Sabinet ID, NSW State Archives and Records Authority Agency ID, Guida al fumetto italiano ID, Bygdeband location, OeBL 1815-1950 ID, Badtaste ID, Badgames ID, defined term ID, Wikia Article ID, Female mexican soccer players ID, Geolex ID, OBV editions, BBC News topic id, member of the Portuguese parliament ID
  • Query examples:
    • Place and century of discovery of the archaeological objects of St Raymond museum (France) (source)
    • Location of city halls in Spain (source)
    • Timeline of famous pirates (source)
    • Authors who are the most cited in Nature Chemistry (source)
    • Scholarly articles published about Wikidata (adapted from here)
    • The world's 200 tallest mountains, and whether Wikidata knows they've been climbed (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Kākāpō, WikiProject Scholia
  • Newest database reports: Fugger

• Development
  • Fix an error when entering an incomplete filename (phab:T199420)
  • Fix the unreadable references for unpriviledged users (phab:T186006)
  • Create new page properties for number of Forms and Senses of a Lexeme (phab:T199611)
  • Adapt the API to efficiently format large numbers of entity IDs (phab:T207484)
  • Switch "save" to "publish" in the Lexeme interface (phab:T203354)
  • Fix a bug showing outdated link formats in the history of Lexemes (phab:T208423)
  • Add Special:MergeLexemes to Special:SpecialPages (phab:T204397)
  • Add Wikipedia link in the other projects sidebar of Wikisource (phab:T180303, thanks to Tpt)
  • Work on displaying the language of the gloss with the language name, both in reading and editing mode (phab:T203457, phab:T209931)
  • More work on improving the interface of the termbox on mobile

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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The Signpost: 1 December 2018

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

• From the editor: Time for a truce

• Op-ed: Looking back, looking forward: A beginner's experience on Wikipedia

• Special report: The Christmas wishlist

• Opinion: The blogosphere migrates to Galaxy WMF

• News and notes: Reviewer of the year, WikiCup winner, and the 2019 Wikimedia Summit

• Reflections: Wikipedia, history, and the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day

• In the media: Court-ordered article redaction, paid editing, and rock stars

• Discussion report: Farewell, Mediation Committee

• Arbitration report: A long break ends

• Traffic report: Queen reigns for four weeks straight

• Gallery: Intersections

• Recent research: Why do the most active Wikipedians burn out?; only 4% of students vandalize

• Essay: No one cares about your garage band

• Humour: The dark side of our favorite root vegetable

• From the archives: Ars longa,vita brevis

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Tech News: 2018-49

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

• Admins will not be able to unblock themselves if they are blocked by someone other than themselves. This is because it can cause damage if someone else takes over an admin account and other admins can't block them. If this is a problem for your community you can report it on Phabricator. You can also ask questions on Meta. There is a discussion on Phabricator about how to solve this if two admins fight with each other on a small wiki. [99]
• Small SVG images are now bigger when you see them in MediaViewer. [100]
• You can go to a section from the edit summary by clicking on the section name. Before this you had to click on the arrow. [101]
• When you jumped to a footnote that was referenced several times in an article it could be difficult to see where you were in the text. Now there are jump marks and highlights to help you find your way back. [102][103]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 5 December at 16:00 (UTC) and at 23:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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3 dec 2018 17:12 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #341

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: How to handle heat treating as a qualifier for material properties ?
  • New development input: Identify problems with adding new languages into Wikidata

• Events
  • Upcoming: "Researcher meets Curator", with a subquestion: "What are the consequences of collecting born digital sources, working with digital network analysis and engaging with linked open data initiatives such as Wikidata", in Maastricht on 22 March 2019. Call for papers
  • Upcoming: Advanced Wikidata Training in India, December 15-16
  • Past: "Wikibase: configure, customize, and collaborate" workshop at SWIB 18 in Bonn, Germany on November 26, 2018. Workshop materials
  • Past: EveryPolitician event to identify political data sources for Wikidata in Madrid, Spain, on December 1, 2018.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Author Disambiguator (github source), new tool by d:User:ArthurPSmith (based on SourceMD) for linking author items to their works.
  • OpenRefine 3.1 was released
  • New API module to format multiple entity IDs
  • You can now access the number of Forms and Senses of Lexemes through API and special page

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: reference has role, tautomer of, eponymous category, language style, ratified by, funding scheme
    • External identifiers: GameFAQs company ID, AJOL journal ID, LEGO set ID, BDFA player ID, Sabinet journal ID, NSW State Archives and Records Authority Agency ID, Bygdeband location ID, Austrian Biographical Encylopedia ID, Badtaste ID, Badgames ID, Mexican female soccer players ID, member of the Portuguese parliament ID, BBC News topic ID, OBV editions ID, Geolex ID, CNPJ, Defined Term ID, Guida al Fumetto Italiano ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: gained independence from, nachgewiesen mittels, measured by (KPI), OpenTrials ID, administrated by the administrative territorial entity, level of description, stored as lexeme, taxon author citation, Astronomical coordinates, catchphrase, real estate developer, Danske Taler speaker
    • External identifiers: TrENSmissions person ID, LIGA profile, SEINet ID, BIBSYS work ID, Jewish Museum Berlin person ID, UK Parliament Identifier, HAER ID, Vesti.kz person ID, Genius album ID, Genius song ID, TASS reference, DIR3 ID, NooSFere story ID, L'Encyclopédie philosophique ID, RegiowikiAT ID, Discord Store game SKU, kohanimeregister, ARLLFB member ID, ARB person ID, Biographie nationale de Belgique ID, protected area authority ID, Flora of Wisconsin ID, identifiant Monument aux morts
  • Query examples:
    • Timeline of early Western movies (source)
    • Species represented in the exhibition "Espèces en voies d'illumination" in the natural history museum of Paris (source)
    • Properties most used to describe cats in Wikidata (source)
    • List of UK embassies (source)
    • Map of places of residence for accused witches in Scotland with a layer for occupations (source)

• Development
  • Add Lexeme to Wikibase's ontology.owl (phab:T195368)
  • Prepare to drop change_tag.ct_tag column (phab:T194163)
  • Create Federated Wikibase instance on Beta Commons (phab:T204748)
  • More work on preparing a new termbox for the mobile version of Wikidata

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 4 dec 2018 14:35 (CET)

Survey bewerkers Nederlandstalige Wikipedia 2018

Dit jaar organiseert Wikimedia Nederland voor de derde keer een survey onder de bewerkers van de Nederlandstalige Wikipedia. Misschien heb je de banner al voorbij zien komen. Er zijn in 2013 en 2015 soortgelijke surveys gehouden. Doel van de survey is om meningen van de bewerkers te peilen (bijvoorbeeld over de werksfeer) en inzicht te krijgen in de samenstelling van de gemeenschap.

Naar aanleiding van suggesties in De Kroeg benaderen we de meest actieve bewerkers persoonlijk om te vragen mee te doen. We zijn erg geïnteresseerd in je mening. Meedoen kan tot 17 december. Hier vind je de link naar de survey.

Sandra Rientjes - Wikimedia Nederland 7 dec 2018 05:33 (CET)

Dubbele lokale schrijfweek: Duitstalige Gemeenschap

Vanaf maandag 10 tot en met vrijdag 21 december 2018 organiseren we de schrijfweken over de Duitstalige Gemeenschap van België.

De Duitstalige Gemeenschap is een van de drie gemeenschappen van België, gelegen tegen de grens met Duitsland en omvat negen gemeenten: Amel, Büllingen, Burg-Reuland, Bütgenbach, Eupen, Kelmis, Lontzen, Raeren en Sankt Vith. Het gebied strekt zich uit van het Drielandenpunt bij Vaals in het noorden tot aan het Drielandenpunt bij Ouren in het zuiden.

Het gebied is helaas nog maar heel beperkt op Wikipedia beschreven. Daarom nodigen we je uit om mee te schrijven over dit gebied en zo deze lacune stukje bij beetje mee te helpen opvullen.

Ook vindt er op zaterdag 15 december in Eupen een edit-a-thon plaats.

Deelnemen & meer informatie · Deelnemerslijst · Insipiratie · Bijdragenlijst · Uit- of inschrijven voor deze mailing - Romaine 10 dec 2018 05:16 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #342

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Scholarly articles that are book reviews

• Events
  • Past: SWAT4HCLS in Antwerp Belgium December 3:
    • Wikibase tutorial
    • "Wikidata as an intuitive resource towards semantic data modeling in data FAIRification" short paper
    • "WikiCite, Wikidata, and Scholia: Linking Publications to Topics" (demo /food/ aspect)
  • Past: Workshop "Wikidata - what is that and why it's relevant in the field of geospatial information technologies?"? at Latvia's Geospatial Information Technology (GIT) conference (slides)
  • Past: Introduction to Wikidata for Wikipedians in Stokholm, Sweden, December 4th
  • Upcoming: Introduction to Wikidata for Wikipedians in Göteborg, Sweden, December 10th

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • "Detailed depictions with IIIF, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons" by Martin Poulter, Bodleian Digital Library blog
  • Report of the GNDCon in the Kurier (in German)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • iD, the default OSM editor at openstreetmap.org has recently had an update which pulls data from Wikidata.
  • WikidataCon 2019, the conference for open data enthusiasts, will take place on 25-26 October 2019 in Berlin
  • Miniature map will be displayed for coordinate properties
  • New passwords requirements will apply on all wikis to new accounts and privileged accounts starting on December 13th
  • New grant request by MySociety: Wikidata post-election updating toolkit

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: award rationale, heat treating, copyright status, level of description
    • External identifiers: SEINet ID, LIGA profile, BIBSYS work ID, UK Parliament identifier, Jewish Museum Berlin person ID, Vesti.kz person ID, Genius album ID, Genius song ID, TASS reference, OpenTrials ID, NooSFere story ID, DIR3 ID, L'Encyclopédie philosophique ID, TrENSmissions person ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: creator, WordLift ID, Specific age inside fictional universe, type of rear suspensions, type of front suspensions, ride height, approach angle, departure angle, Drag coefficient, related category, SinemaTürk person ID, SinemaTürk film ID, Nombre annuel de passagers
    • External identifiers: BDEL ID, ZVR, NARA record group number, MMLO, IEC database ID commemorative monument of Catalonia, Meteorological Service of Canada climate ID, PomBase systematic ID, Volksbund ID, iTunes music movie ID, Paris Musées ID, Beachsoccer.ru player ID, BSRussia player ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of fountains in Zürich (source)
    • Timeline of famous bryologists (source)
    • Percentage of people member of the Swedish church per Church parish (source)
    • Musical genres with the most bands and musicians on Wikidata, per sovereign country of origin/citizenship (source)

• Development
  • We are now showing the language name instead of the language code of a Gloss (phabricator:T203457, phabricator:T209931)
  • We added a Page property for easier programmatic access to the number of Senses and Forms of a Lexeme (phabricator:T199611)
  • The code samples in the query service have been improved (phabricator:T207749, thanks abian!)
  • We're working on tracking how often the different Lua functions that Wikibase provides are used in the Wikimedia project to see how that changes over time (phabricator:T191416)
  • We worked on and fixed a security incident related to blocking (phabricator:T210953)
  • We are continuing to bring the termbox (showing labels, descriptions, aliases) to mobile viewers

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 10 dec 2018 17:05 (CET)

Tech News: 2018-50

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 11 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 December. It will be on all wikis from 13 December (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 12 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• New accounts will need passwords that are at least 8 characters long. Admins, interface admins, bureaucrats, oversighters, CentralNotice admins, global renamers, check users, stewards and some other user groups will need passwords that are at least 10 characters long. This is because an attacker could cause damage to the wikis if they took over these accounts. [104][105]
• When you hover over a footnote it will show you the reference as a pop-up. This is so you don't have to jump down to the bottom of the page to see a reference. This will happen in 2019. Some wikis already have gadgets that do this. You will be able to turn it off. [106]

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10 dec 2018 18:33 (CET)

Tech News: 2018-51

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

Tech News

• Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 7 January 2019.

Recent changes

• Some templates that show notices about the content of the page will now be shown on the mobile website. In many cases they were hidden before. [107][108]
• Admins can no longer unblock themselves, except for self-blocks. A blocked admin can block the user who blocked them but no one else. This is so no one can block all admins on a wiki without being stopped. [109]
• The ParserMigration extension has been removed. It compared the result of two versions of the MediaWiki wikitext parsing pipeline. It was used when we moved to the Remex parsing library instead of Tidy.

Problems

• <ref> tags can use parameters such as "name" or "group". For example <ref name="adams" group="books">. If a <ref> tag has more than two parameters all parameters are ignored. You don't get a warning that they don't work. This will soon be fixed. [110]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 19 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation Android app team are working on making it easier to edit on mobile phones. You can read more about these plans. If you have an Android phone and speak at least two languages you can help testing in English. Tell Dchen (WMF) you want to be part of the testing by writing on her talk page or email her.
• tiles.wmflabs.org and wma.wmflabs.org will stop working. They have no maintainers and run an old operating system. Tools which use it could stop working. This includes the mapnik gadget, hill shading, and hike and bike layers. New maintainers could help out and keep it going. [111]

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17 dec 2018 21:34 (CET)

Sædding versus Sædden

Dag Rodejong,

ik had onderstaande vraag op 23 november ook al gesteld, maar toen werd hij merkwaardigerwijs drie dagen later door een bot verwijderd, omdat hij meer dan drie dagen (!) oud was. En ik ondertussen maar wachten totdat jij het zou lezen. Vandaar dat ik hem opnieuw post, inde hoop dat hij nu langer dan drie dagen blijft staan en je aandacht kan trekken.

Mag ik jou als Denemarken-kenner vragen om eens te kijken naar deze discussie? Op meerdere artikelen worden de namen Sædding en Sædden met elkaar verward, en er blijken ook nog eens meerdere plaatsen te zijn met deze namen. Ik heb, zoals je kunt lezen, de aanmaker verzocht om hierin meer helderheid te scheppen, maar op de een of andere manier lijkt hij maar niet te begrijpen wat het probleem nou is. Ik kom er dus gewoon niet verder mee, en zelf weet ik te weinig van deze materie om er iets aan te kunnen doen.
Ik hoop dat jij erin zult slagen om deze knoop te ontwarren. Bij voorbaat al mijn hartelijke dank, Erik Wannee (overleg) 17 dec 2018 21:59 (CET)

Hoi Erik.

da:Sædden Sogn is the name of parish, which gives name to da:Sædden Kirke.

Sædding is the name of a suburb of da:Esbjerg, located in this parish.

--Madglad (overleg) 18 dec 2018 11:16 (CET)

Tak for svaret Madglad..  Kind regards,   Rodejong   ^💬 Talk ^✉️ Email  ^📝 Edits  ^👀 Auth  🕘 →  18 dec 2018 17:51 (CET)

Dank voor de uitleg. Ik kreeg ook uitleg op Overleg gebruiker:RomkeHoekstra#Kerk van Sædding, en heb daar mijn reactie geplaatst. Erik Wannee (overleg) 19 dec 2018 14:40 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #343

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Split identifier into KEGG Drug Identifier, KEGG Compound Identifier, etc?
  • Closed request for comments: Clarifying rights and responsibilities of Property Creators

• Events
  • Past: 26 November 2018: Adding your own stuff to Wikidata. Workshop at SWIB18, Bonn, Germany
  • Past: 04 December 2018: Chancen und Risiken einer komplementären Nutzung von GND und Wikidata. Präsentation auf der GNDCon in Frankfurt Main, Germany
  • Past: 11–12 December 2018 in Namburu, India: Wiki Advanced Training 2018 (with special focus on Wikidata) by Asaf Bartov
  • Upcoming: 35th Chaos Communication Congress, December 27-30, Leipzig. There will be Wikidata staff and volunteers and Wikidata-related sessions

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • 6 "inside-out" activities librarians are doing — numbers 4 and 5 involve Wikidata
  • From the "Annalen der Pharmacie" to the "European Journal of Organic Chemistry" about using Wikidata for capturing (some of) the history of chemistry
  • Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons, by Sandra Fauconnier, in EuropeanaTech 10 Insight Issue 10: Innovation Agenda
  • Many faces of Wikibase: Lingua Libre makes languages audible, by Jens Ohlig (also available in German)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Call for contribution for the WikiWorkshop, forum bringing together researchers exploring all aspects of the Wikimedia projects, held in May 2019 in San Francisco, is now open until January 31st
  • Research questionnaire about Wikidata as a learning platform by Shani Evenstein as part of her PhD research.
  • Interactive map of the Sibthorp & Bauer Expedition, produced by the Bodleian Libraries, powered by Wikidata
  • Scholia's "missing" pages (example) now link to the new Author Disambiguator tool, and a Listeria list is available to help prioritize co-author disambiguation for authors with sitelinks.
  • Draft of behavior norms policy, feel free to leave comments
  • Wikimedia hackathon in Prague: apply for a scholarship until January 4th
  • Discuss if you can edit your own item, and vote here on the proposed policy.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: real estate developer, collection creator, digital representation of, specific age inside fictional universe, catchphrase, subject lexeme, right ascension, declination, epoch, galactic longitude, galactic latitude
    • External identifiers: ARLLFB member ID, Flora of Wisconsin ID, RegiowikiAT identifier, Discord Store game SKU, Bavarian protected area ID, BDEL ID, Danske Taler speaker ID, Place Names Register ID (Estonia), Biographie nationale de Belgique ID, ARB person ID, Monument aux morts ID, IEC commemorative monument of Catalonia ID, MMLO, Meteorological Service of Canada climate site ID, Volksbund ID, PomBase systematic ID, Paris Musées work ID, LEGO design ID, LEGO element ID, iTunes music movie ID, BSRussia player ID, Beachsoccer.ru person ID, SinemaTürk person ID, SinemaTürk film ID, Wikia article ID, MinDat mineral ID, Harvard Index of Botanists ID, MinDat Locality ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Garzanti Linguistica, Buried in this place, specific rotation, Data interval, Minimum wage, Danmarks svampeatlas ID, friend of, copyright representative, rights statement, co-director, Berliner Schutzgebiets-ID, preparation instructions
    • External identifiers: SVT Open archive, Hymnary.org page, Anbytarforum, Multiplayer ID, Amazon Music artist ID, Parliament of South Africa ID, Objectif Gard topic ID, Epic Games Store ID, Hymnary author ID, IPPDH ID, French Academy of Sciences member ID, OTRS ticket number 2, MNopedia ID, NCpedia ID, ICCD IDs, Weeds in Ontario ID, AllMusic performance ID, bbcmicro.co.uk identifier, YSA ID
  • Query examples:
    • (UK) Ambassador by country list - Listeria report which writes 240 by-country reports on UK Ambassadors - h/t NavinoEvans for the approach
    • Presidents of the United States ranked by the number of species named after them (source)
    • Communes of France whose name starts with "Saint" (source)
    • Italian toponyms with suffixes of Celtic origin (-ago, -ate, -asco) (source)
    • List of ABBA songs in A major (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Wikidata:WikiProject Policies
  • Newest database reports: Nicolas Cage filmography
  • expanded list of Christmas films

• Development
• Test that the issue with blocked users will not happen anymore (phab:T211120)
• Finish up on showing Language and Language codes when editing glosses (phab:T209931)
• Work towards having QualityContraints on Beta (phab:T209957)
• Work on tracking usage of Wikibase Lua Functions (phab:T191416)
• Some more work on string length limits (phab:T154660)
• Work on some Wikidata toolkit improvements (phab:T209399)
• Fix some errors happening in production (phab:T208924)
• More under-the-hood work for the termbox on mobile

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 19 dec 2018 12:28 (CET)

Books & Bytes, Issue 31

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 31, October – Novemeber 2018

• OAWiki
• Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
• Global branches update
• Bytes in brief

French version of Books & Bytes is now available on meta!
Read the full newsletter

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --MediaWiki message delivery (overleg) 21 dec 2018 15:34 (CET)

Nieuwe dubbele schrijfweek kerstweken 2018

Vlag van Luxemburg

Allereerst alvast fijne dagen gewenst!

Honderdtachtig jaar geleden werd België met het Verdrag van Londen (1839) een onafhankelijk land. Daarbij verloor Luxemburg meer dan de helft van haar grondgebied aan België. Laten we door artikelen te schrijven dit land weer groeien, maar dan op Wikipedia, en het op één na kleinste land binnen de Europese Unie op Wikipedia groot maken.

Daarom houden we van 22 december 2018 t/m 6 januari 2019 de jaarlijkse kerstschrijfweken schrijfweken die gericht zijn op dit gebied. Iedereen kan meedoen door te schrijven over Luxemburg en verwante onderwerpen.

Meer informatie, de deelnemerslijst en de bijdragenlijst zijn te vinden op: Wikipedia:Wikiproject/Schrijfweek/Luxemburg.

Deelnemen & meer informatie · Deelnemerslijst · Bijdragenlijst · Uit- of inschrijven voor deze mailing - Romaine 22 dec 2018 03:34 (CET)

PS: Vanaf vandaag kun je ook je stem uitbrengen welk project of welke gebruiker een WikiUil zou moeten krijgen voor diens bijdragen aan de Nederlandstalige Wikipedia in 2018. Zie daarvoor op de pagina der genomineerden. - Taketa & Romaine 22 dec 2018 03:34 (CET)

The Signpost: 24 December 2018

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

• From the editors: Where to draw the line in reporting?

• Op-ed: Wikipedia not trumped by Trump appointee

• Special report: The Signpost got 380,000+ views in 2018, sounds reasonable enough, right?

• News and notes: Some wishes do come true

• In the media: Political hijinks

• Discussion report: A new record low for RfA

• WikiProject report: Articlegenesis

• Arbitration report: Year ends with one active case

• Traffic report: Queen dethroned by U.S. presidents

• Gallery: Sun and moon, water and stone

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Wikidata weekly summary #344

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for comments: Changes in email property, Datatype of P667, How to capture negative results in Wikidata?

• Events
  • Current: Chaos Communication Congress (35C3) where several Wikidata people are present and related sessions happening
  • Next Wikidata IRC office hour: January 8th, 18:00 (UTC+1) on the channel wikimedia-office

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Wikidata architecture overview by Addshore
  • Créer une carte avec Wikidata, OpenRefine et uMap (in French) by Jean-Baptiste Pressac

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Structured data on Commons: Multilingual captions beta testing
  • Lingua Libre now adds audio pronunciation on Forms
  • Check out the roadmap for the development of Wikidata and Wikibase for 2019

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: API endpoint, demonym of, specific rotation, concentration, copyright representative, Berlin protected area ID, advertises
    • External identifiers: Garzanti Linguistica ID, Multiplayer ID, Danmarks svampeatlas ID, Boobpedia article, Amazon Music artist ID, Objectif Gard topic ID, Epic Games Store ID, ZVR-Number, IPPDH ID, French Academy of Sciences member ID, MNopedia ID, NCpedia ID, Weeds in Ontario ID, ICCD ID - S form, ICCD ID - CF form, ICCD ID - CG form, ODNR Division of Wildlife ID, Penthouse ID, bbcmicro.co.uk identifier, YSA ID, ARTIC exhibition ID, ARTIC artist ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: maintenance method, second family name in Scandinavian names, organizational unit, story by, Code of Natura 2000 FFH habitats, century fl., adjective of, holonym 2, meronym 2, has contraction 2, yield, colorist, distinguishing property, Wikispecies template for this work, affiliation string
    • External identifiers: bgm.tv person identifier, bgm.tv character identifier, PC-9801DB ID, ACB.com coach ID, The Armory Show at 100 ID, researchportal.helsinki.fi profile URL, Scoresway tennis person ID, Dictionnaire de spiritualité ID, Muséosphère ID, Historical RNA ID, TheFinalBall coach ID, TheFinalBall referee ID, WorldFootball.net referee ID, teams.by player ID, pressball.by player ID, AMFR player ID, premierliga.ru staff ID, premierliga.ru referee ID, CFU player ID, AIC player ID, RusTeam player ID, Critique d'art ID, Centre Pompidou ID, Agence photo RMN ID, INE ID (Portugal), Agence photo RMN package ID, Wikiapiary entry, England Football Online player profile, England Football Online manager profile, DVR Number, Politika topic, Goodreads character ID
  • Deleted properties: P4570 (Wikidata project)
  • Query examples:
    • Catchphrases in Wikidata (source)
    • Timeline of Indian mathematicians (source)
    • Painting part of the Bavarian State Painting Collections (source)
    • Types of pasta in Wikidata with pictures (source)

• Development
  • Writing a maintenance script to make configuring WikibaseQualityConstraints easier (phab:T209958)
  • Working on new ID generator using different SQL to attempt to stop lock errors when creating lots of items (phab:T194299)
  • Making more parts of the Query Service UI more configurable such as the copyright page, title, and started work on the favicon / logos (phab:T194175)
  • Adding tracking for Wikibase Lua functions so we can see how they are used on various different projects (phab:T191416)
  • Working on fixing alignment issues with glosses (phab:T207401)

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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