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Wikidata weekly summary #388 & Wikidata Birthday

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • MachtSinn is a game to easily add Senses to Lexemes, based on suggestions from Items labels. It helps improving the data about languages in Wikidata.
  • Development
    • Wikidata Bridge: Create progressive disabled version of save button (phab:T235055)
    • Save original revision data in store (phab:T235052)
    • Add interface for tracking/logging (phab:T236233)
    • Make app change button attributes depending on state of store (phab:T235056)
    • More work on reducing the resource loader modules
    • More work on tainted references

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #389

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • SPARQL RC is showing the recent changes on items that are listed from a specific query. It is very useful to monitor the changes on a specific subset of data, for example data that you recently imported in Wikidata.
  • Development
    • Made the Lua functions mw.wikibase.getBestStatements and mw.wikibase.getAllStatements faster if called more than once for the same statement on a single page
    • Fix a bug on the mobile termbox (phab:T236677)
    • Update Wikibase Lua documentation (phab:T225497)
    • Highlight individual statements when selecting them in the URL (phab:T234079)
    • Add monolingual language code "sa-Sidd", "pi-Sidd", tnq (Taíno), car (Kalinago) and bdr (phab:T230881, phab:T220284, phab:T234330)
    • Make it possible to collapse the "All entered languages" section when at the end of the section (phab:T232595)
    • Cache php.getEntityStatements in mw.wikibase (phab:T236491)
    • Tracking Wikidata Bridge openings by Datatype in Grafana (phab:T231204)
    • Not showing Bridge edit pens when the editor cannot edit the article (phab:T235152)
    • A bugfix to only show scrollbars where they are supposed to be shown (phab:T235622)
    • Enabling/Disabling the Save button depending on the bridge state (phab:T230342)
    • More work on tainted references

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.


"Susan Lincoln Tolman Mills (Q55721423)" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Susan Lincoln Tolman Mills (Q55721423). Since you had some involvement with the Susan Lincoln Tolman Mills (Q55721423) redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. -- Tavix (talk) 03:25, 5 November 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #390

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • Speedpatrolling is a tool to easily patrol Wikidata recent changes, typically on mobile devices.
  • Development
    • In order to decrease the size of what we store in caches we stopped storing the actual EntityUsage objects in ParserOutput and now just store minimal identifier strings (phabricator:T236749)
    • Investigated why Termbox broke on an update (phabricator:T235261)
    • Removed auto jump of focus from Property field to value field (phabricator:T234322 - thanks to Envlh for the patch)
    • Removed non-functional site link groups for other Wikibase installations that don't need them (phabricator:T232248)
    • Continued working on the migration of the wb_terms table to address scalability issues
    • Continued working on the shortened version of edit summaries for edits made through the mobile termbox (phabricator:T224013)
    • For the Wikidata Bridge we are not showing edit pens when the user can not edit the article anymore (phabricator:T235152)
    • Working on viewing existing references in the Wikidata Bridge (phabricator:T233397)
    • Worked on showing an information popup when clicking the tainted reference icon to tell you what went wrong and how to solve it.
    • Worked on defining first version of Federation for wikis outside Wikimedia
    • Commons search have stopped indexing statements (structured data) since 30 October 2019 (phabricator:T237849)

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.

Saturday Nov 16: Wikipedia Asian Month Edit-a-thon @ Metropolitan Museum of Art

Saturday November 16, 12:30 pm - 4:30pm: Metropolitan Museum of Art Edit-a-thon

The Wikipedia Asian Month Edit-a-thon @ The Met will be hosted at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Saturday November 16, 2019 in the Bonnie Sacerdote Classroom, Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education (81st Street entrance) at The Met Fifth Avenue in New York City.

The museum is excited to work with Wikipedia Asian Month for the potential to seed new articles about Asian artworks, artwork types, and art traditions, from any part of Asia. These can be illustrated with thousands of its recently-released images of public domain artworks available for Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons from the museum’s collection spanning 5,000 years of art. The event is an opportunity for Wikimedia communities to engage The Met's diverse Asian collections onsite and remotely. Asia Art Archive will host a sister event in Hong Kong next week.

12:30 pm - 4:30 pm in Bonnie Sacerdote Classroom, Uris Center for Education
81st Street entrance, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue


And there will be sandwiches and Wiki-Cake!

Thanks, and hope to see you there! --Wikimedia New York City Team 16:45, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #391

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Recap of WikidataCon and WikiConference North America, 19 November. Agenda
  • Tool of the week
    • The Mix'n'Match gadget displays on an item all unconfirmed matches on Mix'n'match, allowing to quickly add them.
  • Development
    • Tainted references: Show warning icon if statement value is changed but reference is not changed in the same edit (phab:T231728)
    • Make WikibaseQualityConstraints link using SpecialMyLanguage (phab:T233003)
    • Work on the issue of property labels not showing up on some pages (phab:T237984)
    • Track Bridge openings by property datatype (phab:T231204)
    • Viewing existing references in the Bridge (phab:T233397)
    • Attaching the link listener sooner, so the user gets a bit less often wrongly forwarded to wikidata (phab:T235765)

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

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Nov 20: WikiWednesday Salon NYC

November 20, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Metropolitan New York Library Council in Midtown Manhattan. Is there a project you'd like to share? A question you'd like answered? A Wiki* skill you'd like to learn? Let us know by adding it to the agenda.

7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Metropolitan New York Library Council (8th floor) at 599 11th Avenue, Manhattan

We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Wikimedia New York City Team 16:16, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #392

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
  • Cradle enables editors to create a new item by completing a form. You can create a new form on the Cradle help page. Cradle forms can be used as templates to ensure that similar new items are structured the same way. This can be especially helpful for specific WikiProjects or datathons, and is a great timesaver if you are creating many similar items by hand.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • 570k VIAF identifiers have been added to Wikidata items in an effort of synchronisation between the two databases, thanks to Bargioni. In order to report errors in VIAF an apposite page has been created. More information here.
    • Query Service lag now affects maxlag. You may need to retry/reset error multiple times when you run QuickStatement or OpenRefine in busy hours.
    • Wikidata now documented more than six million people, more than the number of articles in English Wikipedia
    • New documentation page: Wikidata:Map data
  • Development
    • Add Wikidata query service lag to Wikidata maxlag (phab:T221774)
    • More work on tainted references and getting the feature ready to be tested
    • Fix a bug with Wikibase test builds (phab:T238575)
    • More work on improving the edit summaries (phab:T224013)
    • Bridge: Viewing existing references (phab:T233397)
    • Preserving native behavior on key+click (phab:T234060)
    • Speeding up initialization, by attaching link listeners sooner (phab:T235765) and reducing the size of the init module (phab:T235771)
    • Recording metrics for bridge opening performance (phab:T237368)

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.


An automated process has detected that when you recently edited First Year of Deception, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Ahmed Ezz (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver).

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