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The Wikimedia Hackathon will take place online on May 20–22, 2022. If you’re interested in presenting something around Wikidata and Wikibase during the hackathon, don’t wait too long to book a slot: Wikimedia Hackathon 2022/Schedule.
MapComplete is an OpenStreetMap viewer and editor that searches Wikidata for species - which means that it is super-easy to link the Wikidata item to a tree one sees!
REST API: We are continuing to implement the REST routes to get all statements of an Item and retrieve a single statement from an Item (phab:T305988, phab:T307087, phab:T307088)
Lexicographical data: We are finishing the version of the page for browsers without JavaScript support (phab:T298160). We started working on the feature to pre-fill the input fields by URL parameter (phab:T298154). And we started working on better suggestions for lexical categories so commonly-used ones can more easily be added to avoid mistakes (phab:T298150).
We fixed an issue with recently added new language codes not being usable for Lexemes and not being sorted correctly on Special:NewItem (phab:T277836).
Following an RfC, a change has been made to the administrators inactivity policy. Under the new policy, if an administrator has not made at least 100 edits over a period of 5 years they may be desysopped for inactivity.
A public status system for WMF wikis has been created. It is located at https://www.wikimediastatus.net/ and is hosted separately to WMF wikis so in the case of an outage it will remain viewable.
Arbitration
Remedy 2 of the St Christopher case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to place a ban on single-purpose accounts who were disruptively editing on the article St Christopher Iba Mar Diop College of Medicine or related pages from those pages.
Sweden report: Training at the National Archives of Sweden; Training at the Stockholm City Museum; Training at the Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology; Improved images from Swedish Performing Arts Agency
The Wikimedia Hackathon will take place online on May 20–22, 2022. Are you interested in presenting something around Wikidata and Wikibase during the hackathon? Book a slot in the Wikidata+Wikibase room: Wikimedia Hackathon 2022/Schedule.
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call May 17, 2022: Anson Parker and Lucy Carr-Jones (University of Virigina Claude Moore Health Sciences Library) will be talking about their Open Data Dashboard for analyzing University of Virginia Health publications using EuropePMC publication data as well as work to group publications based on institutional departments in Wikidata and how much of their content is "open." Agenda
LIVE Wikidata editing #80 - YouTube, Facebook, May 21 at 18:00 UTC
REST API: We continued implementing the REST routes to get all statements of an Item and retrieve a single statement from an Item (phab:T305988, phab:T307087, phab:T307088)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
The Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 will take place online on May 20–22. It will be in English. There are also local hackathon meetups in Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Nigeria and the United States. Technically interested Wikimedians can work on software projects and learn new skills. You can also host a session or post a project you want to work on.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 May. It will be on all wikis from 19 May (calendar).
Future changes
You can soon edit translatable pages in the visual editor. Translatable pages exist on for examples Meta and Commons. [2]
6 and 8 June: Scholia hackathon with focus on software-related visualizations and curation workflows
29 July 2022: The submission deadline for the Wikidata Workshop 2022 that will be co-located with the 21st International Conference on Semantic Web (ISWC 2022).
Interrogating linked open data and Wikidata with SPARQL Lorenzo Losa - YouTube
Tool of the week
LOD4Culture is a web application for exploring world-wide cultural heritage.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
UNLOCK, a Wikimedia Deutschland program, is looking for your project ideas. These could be the development of tools building on top of Wikidata's data, of applications for social and public good or related to civic tech. Apply until May 29th, 2022!
Wikibase REST API: Initial implementation of a route providing all statements of an item (phab:T305988), an a route to retrieve a single statement (phab:T307087) completed.
First batch of WBstack.com accounts successfully migrated to Wikibase.cloud. You can keep track of our progress on this phabricator ticket phab:T303852.
Lexicographical data: We updated the input placeholders on the new version of the NewLexeme special page (T302877, T307443). We finished the feature to prefill the inputs from URL parameters if present (T298154) and to suggest common lexical category items (T298150). We are working on some accessibility improvements (T303806, T290733, T305359) and improving validation / error messages (T305854).
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
Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. [3]
The Growth team maintains a mentorship program for newcomers. Previously, newcomers weren't able to opt out from the program. Starting May 19, 2022, newcomers are able to fully opt out from Growth mentorship, in case they do not wish to have any mentor at all. [5]
Some editors cannot access the content translation tool if they load it by clicking from the contributions menu. This problem is being worked on. It should still work properly if accessed directly via Special:ContentTranslation. [6]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 May. It will be on all wikis from 26 May (calendar).
Future changes
Gadget and user scripts developers are invited to give feedback on a proposed technical policy aiming to improve support from MediaWiki developers. [7]
(I was redirected here from User talk:Pi bot.) I have again reverted an edit by Pi bot (talk·contribs) at Violet Keene. Firstly, does the automated account not recognize the undo flag, and its implication that edits shouldn't be automatically repeated multiple times? Secondly, the bot repeatedly says, Changing locally defined but nonexistent Commons category (Category:1=photographs by Violet Keene) to the one from Wikidata (Category:Violet Keene), even though c:Category:photographs by Violet Keene is most-certainly an existant category at the Commons? Thirdly, if these two errors cannot be accounted for, can the bot be manually programmed to not keep making this one edit? Thanks, — Fourthords | =Λ= |14:00, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
@Fourthords: The problem is that [8] does not exist. The simplest way to avoid this is to correct the link, which I've already done [9] (use the lcfirst=yes parameter if you really want to keep the lower-case p). In general, though, it's better to use the main link to commons:Category:Violet Keene, since that's where any media related to Violet that aren't her photographs will end up - and even though it's empty except for the subcategory at the moment, it provides a bit of encouragement to upload more materials, and it provides context via the infobox that the subcategory does not. This is also the Commons link that will appear in the sidebar, and it's good to be consistent. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 14:06, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
A further thought: is the bot not 'aware' that the software is first-letter agnostic, and seeing the leading "photographs" as different from "Photographs"? — Fourthords | =Λ= |14:29, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
@Fourthords: Look at the examples given, the template is rarely used with the '1=' parameter. The bot's been running since 2019, and this is the first time this issue has come up. I can modify the bot to cope with "1=" if needed, but it really seems like an edge case. The template itself doesn't work well with lower case first, without the lcfirst parameter, particularly with the comparison with Wikidata. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 14:30, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
the template is rarely used with the '1=' parameter. Yet if the template is supposed to work like that regardlessly, shouldn't the bot have been programmed based on the template, not rarity? I also didn't realize the letter case malfunction was the template's error; I'm sorry for assuming the bot was at fault there. I'll let those editors know, thanks! — Fourthords | =Λ= |14:35, 23 May 2022 (UTC) P.S. You don't need to link to or name my userpage upon replying; indenting under my text is the default way to know you're replying to me.
It's something I have to add in to the code manually, since I'm working with the wikitext. I can do that. The template code was also from me, it would probably need a Lua editor to avoid that issue, and setting up the lcfirst parameter seemed the easiest way to go (it also works then if you don't manually define the link, in which case it uses the value from Wikidata directly). Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 14:38, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
@Fourthords:bot code updated. With WP:THREAD, I know that's the default way, but I don't know if you're watching this page - hence the courtesy ping. If you reply to me on another page, please do the same, otherwise I might miss your message. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 20:05, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
That's good to know, thanks!I don't know what "courtesy ping" means in this context. The only way I know if you reply is by watching your talk page, or if you left a note at mine. I think we're by-and-large done, now, but I tend to watch longer than strictly necessary just in case. (I also tend to accidentally watch pages more often that I think, probably by mishandling the keyboard while editing.) Thanks! — Fourthords | =Λ= |13:11, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
No!! That became a real site feature‽ Somebody was testing something like that eons ago, and it was hellish: trying to make the English Wikipedia a damnable social network or some nonsense. I asked an administrator to disable it for me, since I couldn't get it to go away. I never ever would have guessed it would become an actual feature! What dreck! Seriously, thank you for that info, 100%.Actually, as you are somebody who edits or makes enwp templates, maybe you can help? According to that page, even mentioning another user's page will bombard them with this crap, much less using the {{user}} template like I have for ages. Is it possible to not annoy the everloving piss out of my fellow editors, when I just want to link to their page? I can't fathom how many editors I've pissed off (for who knows how long) by putting a stick in their eyes all the damned time. Thanks, — Fourthords | =Λ= |14:46, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
It works really well - I use it a lot. We need more tools like this, it's hardly making Wikipedia a social network (although TBH I think we could do with a bit more of that to help with community cohesiveness!). I really wouldn't worry about accidental notifications - every editor can turn off the notifications if they want (Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-echo). Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 15:31, 26 May 2022 (UTC)
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call May 31, 2022: Felicia Smith, Nicole Coleman, and Akosua Kissi on the Know Systemic Racism Project Agenda
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Radioactivity map: Mind map about radioactive radiation built by importing from Wikidata with InfoRapid KnowledgeBase Builder
Wikibase REST API: Expanding statement reading routes (a single statement specified by ID (phab:T307087), all statements of an item (phab:T305988), a single statement for a specific item (phab:T307088))
Fetch revision metadata and entity data separately in all use cases (phab:T307915, decision)
Update installation instructions in WikibaseLexeme.git readme file (phab:T306008)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
In the AbuseFilter extension, an ip_in_ranges() function has been introduced to check if an IP is in any of the ranges. Wikis are advised to combine multiple ip_in_range() expressions joined by | into a single expression for better performance. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage. [10]
The IP Info feature which helps abuse fighters access information about IPs, has been deployed to all wikis as a beta feature. This comes after weeks of beta testing on test.wikipedia.org.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 June. It will be on all wikis from 2 June (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 31 May at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
The New Topic Tool will be deployed for all editors at most wikis soon. You will be able to opt out from within the tool and in Preferences. [11][12]
The list=usercontribs API will support fetching contributions from an IP range soon. API users can set the uciprange parameter to get contributions from any IP range within the limit. [13]
A new parser function will be introduced: {{=}}. It will replace existing templates named "=". It will insert an equal sign. This can be used to escape the equal sign in the parameter values of templates. [14]
Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. (T307341)
The IP Info feature has been deployed to all wikis as a Beta Feature. Any autoconfirmed user may enable the feature using the "IP info" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features. Autoconfirmed users will be able to access basic information about an IP address that includes the country and connection method. Those with advanced privileges (admin, bureaucrat, checkuser) will have access to extra information that includes the Internet Service Provider and more specific location.
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 7 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 June. It will be on all wikis from 9 June (calendar).
Lexicographical data: We finished work on input validation and displaying errors for faulty input (phab:T305854) and are continuing work on accessibility improvements such as screen reader support and keyboard navigation (phab:T290733, phab:T30535).
REST API: We finished implementation of conditional statement requests (phab:T307031, phab:T307032) and published the OpenAPI specification document (still subject to change as the API develops). We started working on the write part of the API with adding statements to an Item (phab:T306667).
Hello Mike Peel! I am recently unblocked. I want to remove the contents in my user page. Is it allowed? Is it to be done by me or by an admin? In fact, i also want to delete my user page and my user talk page for a fresh start. Is it allowed? If so, how shall I request it procedurally? --Haoreima (talk) 17:58, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
Kosovo report: Cooperation with the National Gallery of Kosova and Summer of Wikivoyage 2022
Malaysia report: WikiGap Malaysia 2022 @ Kuala Lumpur Library
New Zealand report: Pacific Arts Aotearoa Wikiproject, Auckland Museum's Exploratory Study and Report back on #1Lib1Ref
Poland report: Wikipedian in residence in the National Museum in Cracow; Training at the Wawel Royal Castle National Art Collection; How can we make GLAM’s digital resources more reusable in education?; The International Museum Day 2022 Wikidata Competition
Sweden report: Rembrandt and others – drawings from the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm; Stockholm Museum of Women’s History; The map book of Heinrich Thome; Sörmland Museum; Wikidata competition – International Museum Day 2022
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call June 14, 2022: Will Kent (Wikidata Program Manager at Wiki Education) and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight (Wikimedia Foundation Trustee; Visiting Scholar at Northeastern University; co-founder of Wiki Women in Red) will present on Leveraging Wikidata for Wikipedia – running a multi-language wiki project and the role of Wikidata in improving Wikipedia's content gender gap. Agenda
ExtraInterwiki. Some language links will never show up in your favorite Wikipedia, those who don’t have a corresponding article in this Wikipedia. This new tool aims to give them more visibility by searching topics closed to the one on an article with no article on your wiki.
Fixed a bug where Item IDs where shown instead of the label after selecting an Item in an Item selector (phab:T306214)
Lexicographical data: finished accessibility improvement for the new Special:New Lexeme page (phab:T290733), improving error messages for the new page (phab:T310134) and worked on a new search profile to make selecting languages easier (phab:T307869)
REST API: continued work on creating statements (phab:T306667)
