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Wikidata weekly summary #405

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Development
    • Started working on Federated Properties for Wikibase
    • Bridge: more style adjustments
    • Research on reference rendering for the Bridge (phab:T244987)
    • Disable WDQS jump to focus when used in an iframe (phab:T245637)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Works about Republic of the Congo

A tag has been placed on Category:Works about Republic of the Congo requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. UnitedStatesian (talk) 02:28, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #406

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • WikiGap Challenge, online editing challenge to improve the coverage of women on Wikipedia and Wikidata, from March 8th to April 8th
  • Development
    • Querying the URL datatype with haswbstatement is now possible (phab:T243693). It will take two to three months before URLs are indexed for all Wikidata items.
    • Wikidata Bridge: more style fixes, preparing a prototype to show how we will display references
    • Fixing various production errors
    • Monitoring the run of wb_terms migration
    • Fixing an issue with the Commons files search field (phab:T196165)

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Dior Fall Sow name

Hi you added a name "Elisabeth" to the article [1]. It seems in most places she is addressed as "Dior Fall Sow". How do you know her name is "Elisabeth"? Also, do you perhaps know which parts are first-name and which are last-name. I'm not familiar with Senegal culture 🙂. --Nux (talk) 22:29, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

Yes, most sources do not have the Elisabeth. A couple do: (1) Jutta M. Joachim (2007), Agenda Setting, the UN, and NGOs: Gender Violence and Reproductive Rights, p.199 has 'Elisabeth Dior Fall Sow'; (2) Décret n° 2004-128 portant réintégration et détachement d’un magistrat talks of 'Mme Dior Elisabeth Fall Sow'. I don't understand Senegalese naming conventions properly myself.Dsp13 (talk) 22:54, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #407

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
  • Development
    • Add monolingual codes nrf-gg (Guernésiais), nrf-je (Jèrriais), thanks to Mbch331! (phab:T165648)
    • Article Placeholder: make the entity field required (phab:T247478)
    • Remove legacy Wikibase service containers (phab:T245865)
    • Fix an error UnresolvedEntityRedirectException when viewing certain Wikidata item pages (phab:T243779)
    • Fix an issue with new edit summaries not always showing what expected (phab:T246873)
    • Federated properties: enable search with remote properties (wbsearchentities) (phab:T246349)
    • showing the updated Wikipedia article after changing a value via Bridge (phab:T235208)
    • research how to do reference rendering (phab:T244987)

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April 2020 at Women in Red

April 2020, Volume 6, Issue 4, Numbers 150, 151, 159, 160, 161, 162


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Wikidata weekly summary #408

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • Wikidata Lexeme Forms allows quickly generating a new lexeme with all its forms in selected languages; you can also use the tool to add forms to an existing lexeme, or bulk upload many lexemes and forms at once.
  • Development

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The Months of African Cinema Global Contest

AfroCine Celebrates You!

Hello Dsp13, ,
Thank you for your fine contributions to The Months of African Cinema Global edit-a-thon.
You are being recognized for being the editor with the second highest cumulative points from the contest, and also for achieving the highest number of country diversity!
Because of users like you, the edit-a-thon became a huge success, and we appreciate you for that. You have hereby won a total of $80 in the form of a gift card. Confirm your acceptance of this award by replying to this notification and contact me through the e-mail function to redeem your prize. Congratulations!
--Jamie Tubers (talk) 00:03, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #409

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • IdentifierInput: when adding identifiers, it lets you paste the full URL, and extracts the ID part
  • Development
    • Fix an issue with the Wikidata dumps (phab:T248612)
    • Migrate to and read from new store for item terms (phab:T219123)
    • Create wb_terms_no_longer_updated to ease the transition to the new tables
    • Bridge: improve the rendering of references (phab:T238661)
    • More work on editing references (phab:T240333)
    • Continue setting up a test system to work on federated properties
    • More research on suggesting references

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Featuring your work on Wikipedia's front page: DYKs

Thank you for your recent articles, including Beata Rank, which I read with interest. When you create an extensive and well referenced article, you may want to have it featured on Wikipedia's main page in the Did You Know section. Articles included there will be read by thousands of our viewers. To do so, add your article to the list at T:TDYK. Let me know if you need help, Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 03:05, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

@Piotrus:, I assume you mean Beata Rank! I've never been very interested in DYK, I'm afraid. But thank you very much for taking the trouble to ping me. Bridget Newell might be a good candidate, I suppose. Dsp13 (talk) 18:03, 4 April 2020 (UTC)
Doh! Yes, copy-paste error happened. I meat Rank indeed. Any article that is expanded beyond stub and has inline citations for all content qualifies for DYK, and I think quite a lot of stuff you work on qualifies. Give it a try, it's a great way to promote your work! --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 02:08, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #410

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • Scholia highlights the scholarly data in Wikidata, including scholarly works, projects, topics, and individual researchers, including their relationships and statistics. It encourages further enrichment of Wikidata through links on the "missing" pages.
  • Development
    • Working on a first prototype for automated finding references (board)
    • Bridge: improve rendering of references (phab:T238661)
    • Only send incremental changes through the API (phab:T230343)
    • Adding a screen allowing people to go edit the references on Wikidata (phab:T240333)
    • Reducing the size of the extra Javascript that the user has to download for Bridge (phab:T228857)

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