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Wikidata weekly summary #500

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Open request for adminship: Ameisenigel (RfP scheduled to end after 27 December 2021 15:57 UTC)
  • Tool of the week
    • Articles created by country of citizenship : a javascript notebook which looks at the distribution of articles created by a user by country of citizenship (P27). It uses Wikidata's API through wikibase-sdk library.
  • Development
    • Due to the winter holidays, the development team is taking a break and no deployment is happening for Wikidata at the moment.

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.

January 2022 Women in Red

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December second place: Women in Oceania: WiR Women in Oceania contest, 2021




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13 articles Oronsay Second Place December 2021 Congratulations! WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 01:12, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

a badge for you! - Third Place Women in Red Oceania

3rd place: Women in Oceania: WiR Women in Oceania contest, 2021




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Wikidata weekly summary #501

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming:
      • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, January 19th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group.
      • SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, January 4 at 19:00 CEST
    • Ongoing:
    • Past:
      • Wikibase live session (December 2021) - log
  • Tool of the week
    • Wikidata's Q item explorer: Show claims where the item is the subject of the statement but doesn't show statements where the item is the target value.
  • Development
    • Due to the winter holidays, no development has happened for Wikidata in the last two weeks.

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 #502

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • OneZoom "tree of life explorer" is an interactive map of the evolutionary links between all living things known to science using Wikidata.
  • Development
    • Getting the Wikidata:Mismatch Finder ready for release. Focusing on adding statistics.
    • Fixed an issue where statement editing was broken in some older browser (phab:T298001)
    • Made it so that grammatical features on a Form of a Lexeme can be ordered consistently across all Lexemes (phab:T232557)
    • Working on an issue where changes from Wikidata don't get sent to the other wikis for the initial adding of the sitelink to an Item (phab:T233520)

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.

  • Looking back at 2021
    • Developments rolled out in 2021:
      • New updater for the Wikidata Query Service to help it keep up with the large number of edits on Wikidata
      • Query Builder to make it easier for people to create SPARQL queries without having to know SPARQL
      • Item Quality Evaluator to make it easy to find the highest and lowest quality Items in a topic area
      • Constraints Violations Checker is a small command-line tool that gives constraint violation statistics for a set of Items to make it easier to find the Items that need more work
      • Curious Facts finds anomalies in the data in Wikidata and offers them up for review and amusement
      • Wikidata Map to see the distribution of Wikidata's Items across the world and the connections between them
      • Current Events to make it easy to see what's currently a hot topic in the world and being edited a lot on Wikidata
    • New entities in 2021:

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Wikidata weekly summary #503

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Open request for adminship: MSGJ (RfP scheduled to end after 20 January 2022 17:45 UTC)
  • Development
    • Fixed an issue where making changes with sitelinks were not fully dispatched to the clients (phab:T233520)
    • Mismatch Finder: Improved the texts in the tool to be more understandable after testing
    • Mismatch Finder: added a way to get statistics about all the reviews that have been done in the tool and what is still awaiting review
    • Special:NewLexeme: kicked off the development work to improve the page in order to make it more understandable

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.


A kitten for you!

A new user ConstanceCain and I have updated the Edna Ryan Awards!

CooeeCapella (talk) 06:28, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

Thank you. I was unable to for obvious reasons.--Oronsay (talk) 06:39, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

She is having trouble getting her user page to work. Does it usually take time before you can access it? CooeeCapella (talk) 06:30, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

She will have to create it, here. Happy to help, if needed, but best for her to create it herself, as she has done with her Talk page. I'll now go and issue the standard Aussie welcome.--Oronsay (talk) 06:39, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #504

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Closed request for adminship: MSGJ (Successful). Welcome onboard \o/
  • Tool of the week
    • Comparator compare the list of cited entities across two different wikipedia articles using Wikidata and SPARQL
  • Development
    • Enabling usage tracking specifically for statements on Waray, Armenian and Cebuano Wikipedias (phab:T296383, phab:T296382, phab:T296384)
    • Implementing basic version of mul language code and deploying it to Test Wikidata (phab:T297393)
    • Preparing an event centered on reusing Wikidata's data
    • Mismatch Finder: Been in touch with people who can potentially provide the first mismatches to load into the new tool for the launch. Finalized the statistics part.

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.


Australian Honours Lists question

Hello - just wondering, given your work on various honours lists, is there consensus to remove people from the relevant Australia Day/Queen's Birthday lists if they are subsequently removed (or resign) from their respective award, or do you have them reflect the awards made at the time? Deus et lex (talk) 01:56, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

So far as I am aware, the practice is to annotate the honours list with the relevant information. Alan Bond is a good example of this in the AO section of the 1984 Australia Day Honours.--Oronsay (talk) 02:36, 25 January 2022 (UTC)
Thank you - I noticed Brian Burke was not in the relevant 1988 Honours List (noting that his award was rescinded). I will follow the same practice. Deus et lex (talk) 03:16, 25 January 2022 (UTC)
@Deus et lex: Oh, good... and thank you. I'm looking forward to seeing who is in the new batch of honours, due to be released for publication this evening!--Oronsay (talk) 03:54, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for doing the OAMs (and your usual linking)! Normally they release the database at 9pm and I will generate the list from that but they stuffed up this year and only uploaded two entries! I did the rest from the PDFs which were released at 10 but couldn't stomach manually doing the 540 OAMs so I decided to see if they had fixed it in the morning – they had, but you have already done them all. Wonderful! Hope it wasn't too much trouble due to the government's admin error! --Canley (talk) 00:06, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

@Canley: Thanks for doing the lion's share and for doing the Military OAMs. I scraped the list from the SMH and manually changed capitalisation of the surnames. Just a little exercise for my busy fingers! Added them in batches in case anyone woke up and got busy. So far I've avoided edit conflict. Still plenty of articles to update though, and more links to discover.--Oronsay (talk) 00:19, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

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