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Science Stories by Kat Thornton and Kenneth Seals-Nutt, an application that tells stories about underrepresented people in STEM using Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia, is the winner of the LODLAM 2020 Challenge!
Wikidata Bridge: more work on unsupported edit cases (unsupported datatypes phab:T235753, ambiguous statements phab:T240212, deprecated statements phab:T238660, unknown value or no value statements phab:T242747)
Including the property label in the title of the Data Bridge dialog (phab:T233295)
Making the edit based on the user's fixed/updated choice (phab:T238662)
Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference, one of the themes being how Wikidata can support minority languages, will take place on July 9-10 in Limerick, Ireland. Call for submissions open from February 27th to March 30th.
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: More discussion of pseudonyms and historical place names, 25 February. Agenda
QWiki, a mobile game asking geography questions based on Wikidata, now has a new version released as well as a website where one can learn how the game was made and how to contribute;
Following an RfC, the blocking policy was changed to state that sysops must not undo or alter CheckUser or Oversight blocks, rather than should not.
A request for comment confirmed that sandboxes of established but inactive editors may not be blanked due solely to inactivity.
Technical news
Following a discussion, Twinkle's default CSD behavior will soon change, most likely this week. After the change, Twinkle will default to "tagging mode" if there is no CSD tag present, and default to "deletion mode" if there is a CSD tag present. You will be able to always default to "deletion mode" (the current behavior) using your Twinkle preferences.
July 2-4, Lisbon: WikiData Days 2020. Call for proposals is open until April 15.
Program submissions for the Celtic Knot Conference are open until March 30th. Submissions about languages on Wikidata, GLAM or supporting minority languages are very welcome.
Wikidata graph builder is a front-end on top of the Query service, allowing to easily build graphs.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
The Wikidata Languages Landscape dashboard provides insights into the ways languages are organized and used in Wikidata and across the Wikimedia projects that reuse Wikidata.
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)
Indonesia report: Proposing collaboration with museums in Bali; First Wikisource training in the region
Netherlands report: Students write articles about Media artists, Public Domain Day 2020, Wiki Goes Caribbean, WikiFridays at Ihlia - Wikimedia Nederland in January & February 2020
Norway report: Wikipedia editing workshop with the Norwegian Network for Museums
I have Ronhjones' TP on my Watchlist, and started to basically respond at User talk:Ronhjones#Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE Wikipedia Photos Copyright as a courtesy acknowledgement due to Ron's absence since Apr 2019. Then I found the article is swamped with 30+ images, mostly contrived photo-calls of visiting dignitaries. Whereas this may be acceptable for hosting at Commons, I didn't know how to proceed with deleting from the article as unencyclopedic and of little value to the reader, or how to convey this adequately to the enquirer. It's been top-templated and I didn't just want to add, ferinstance, {{too many photos}}. Thx.--Rocknrollmancer (talk) 15:20, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
@Rocknrollmancer: Wow, that is a lot of images, particularly at the bottom of the page. I think they're all in scope for Commons, though, and copyright seems to be OK - but would be better with OTRS or at least the name of the photographer(s) for credit. I'll quickly go through them to add them to the correct commons category, but I think someone (you?) needs to go through the article and remove at least half of the less notable ones... Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 15:26, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
@Rocknrollmancer and NiD.29: Let me know when I can help further. If you crop the images, it would probably be best if you kept the originals and had the cropped versions at different filenames, of course. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 23:52, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
I'm just making a start on the deadlinks x5 (see what the bot finds). This all seems entirely promotional, written by involved individuals - I haven't even scanned the history as I would normally, or the view stats. In the draft I scrubbed, I mentioned that the images would be better at a social media portal rather than an encyclopedia. Cheers.--Rocknrollmancer (talk) 00:09, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #407
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Note: Due to the ongoing COVID-19 situation, most meetups, including all those funded by Wikimedia Foundation grants, have been cancelled, or moved online, for the foreseeable future.
All identifiers are now sorted mostly alphabetically according to the RfC regarding the sorting of identifiers, which remains open if you have improvement proposals. Feel free to comment here!
Maximilian Klein applied for a project grant to merge and improve WHGI and Denelezh, tools that heavily rely on Wikidata to provide statistics about gender gap and biographical content in Wikimedia projects.
QuickStatements change (4 March). QuickStatements is now executing "run in background" batches with the same priority as direct batches run from the browser. Background batches may now run many times faster than they previously did (discussion), when the WDQS updater can handle this.
I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Fifteen Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for fifteen years or more.
@Chris troutman: Thanks! Unfortunately, the society system doesn't seem to be compatible with having a single user page on meta, it might be better as a list rather than a category. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 14:17, 17 March 2020 (UTC)
Hi @Mike Peel: I requested the move due to disambiguation caused under the name Croatia men's national basketball team, when posting the fixtures schedule for the national team. The name Croatia national basketball team being the original base name eliminates this issue of disambiguation, when completing this task. Similar pages like the Croatia national football team page doesn't cause this issue of disambiguation with the fixtures schedule, due to the page being under the original base name and not differing under another name like for example Croatia men's national football team. Hopefully this gives a bit more clarity on it. 12:02, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #408
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last 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.
I've updated {{Commons and category}} and {{Commons and category-inline}} to implement your idea of only showing one link if only one of the gallery and category is defined (either in the arguments or in wikidata). I think this will serve our readers with fewer links that lead to the Commons search engine, when there is a perfectly good link available. — hike395 (talk) 14:42, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
Upcoming: The Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference will take place fully remotely in July 2020. Call for submissions with remote formats is open until April 30th.
Upcoming: the Wikidata Wochenende (previously in Ulm) will take place fully remote on June 12-14
Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold a Arbcom RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. A draft RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC (Draft) and not open to comments from the community yet. Interested editors can comment on the RfC itself on its talk page.
Miscellaneous
The WMF has begun a pilot report of the pages most visited through various social media platforms to help with anti-vandalism and anti-disinformation efforts. The report is updated daily and will be available through the end of May.
Ongoing: covid-19 virtual biohackathon until April 11th. Information on how to participate. Instructions to participate are on the github wiki and join #wikidata room. Several Wikidata-related topics are currently presented, such as: COVID-19 Global Dashboard, sync the ICTV Virus classification and Nomenclature with Wikidata, federate between Wikidata and NextProt, use wikibase to align between (bio)schema.org and Wikidata.
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.
Job opportunity: Science Museum, London. Research Developer, "using computational techniques to create links between the SMG collection and Wikidata at scale" (deadline: 19 April).
New tool: Wikidata Complete uses machine learning algorithms to read Wikipedia, identify facts and import them into Wikidata after manual check (blog post)
schema.org announced an extension to allow for special announcements with regards to COVID-19. The way to identify the topic as per the example? By using the Wikidata Q-Identifier, Q81068910: Structured data for special announcements
Interactive map showing the spread of COVID-19, updated daily with data from Wikidata.
We met briefly at the last WikidataCon in Berlin; I always wanted to contacted you on your presentation. You spoke about Info boxes and I realised it would not be that simple. I am organising a Wikibase outside Wikidata, the FactGrid, the product of a joint venture with Wikimedia Berlin. Info Boxes had been on the list for all our document pages. This is a typical document page: [D-Q6641. The titles are not very helpful; they are dsesignd to match the respective Q-number, in this case our Item:Q6641.
I wonder whether you could help us to build a single info box for such a page. It could be full width and it would give the basic information of the dataset.
I guess I would know all the rest if you managed to bring a single piece of information from the Item onto the document page, like the author or the title. If you feel tempted to try your luck I'd immediately give you an account to play with. --Olaf Simons (talk) 21:01, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
