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Dual script support for Punjabi Wikidata labels and descriptions in Gurmukhi (pa) and Shahmukhi (pnb), taking a conservative approach (only making "obvious" transliterations).
Addition of labels and descriptions entirely consistent of information which can be inferred from other language labels (again, only for "obvious" cases).
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call September 20, 2022: Michael Jones (National Library of Wales) on his work using machine learning, Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF), and Wikidata with historical newspaper collections. Agenda
The Climate Knowledge Hunt Hackathon: IPCC reports → Wikidata event on September 24. Registration
Finished the endpoint for editing statements (phab:T306934)
Working on automated edit summaries (phab:T312811)
Making small modifications to the response format for statements (phab:T317866)
Lexicographical data:
Special:NewLexemeAlpha now uses the new search profile for languages, which makes it easier to select a language Item for the language of the new Lexeme (phab:T312853)
Finished the work on making sure that the example Lexeme falls back to other locally defined examples for languages other than English instead of the pre-set example Lexeme (phab:T313599)
Working on making sure that only *-x-Q123, not *-x-q123, can be used as a Lexeme language code (phab:T317863)
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour September 30, 2022: the seventh Wikidata Working Hour in the series will be a review session of creating contributor and publisher items in Wikidata. The primary goal of this session is to generate as many contributor and publisher items as we can in advance of the two following sessions which have to do with batch editing -- we want enough to make a good batch! We will review how to add items, but then reserve the bulk of the session for open editing, kind of like a mini-editathon! Naturally, participants can ask questions and share thoughts at any point during the editing! You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in the project series will be recorded. Links will be added when available. Event page
User:Bovlb/notability.js is a userscript that adds a small notability indicator to the top right of an item showing how well the item satisfies the three notability criteria. Left to right, the three columns indicate sitelinks, identifiers and references, and structural need.
October 4, 2022: Lana Soglasnova and Roman Tashlitskyy will talk about their preliminary work in creating and editing items for Slavic people and some of the complications involved in this work, especially around transliterating names in various languages. Agenda
Wikibase Working Hour! 25 October 2022, 2pm Eastern (Time zone converter) Amy Ruskin of Northeastern University Library, will speak on the topic of Wikidata vs. custom Wikibases: Community history case studies, Boston’s Chinatown. The Boston Research Center (BRC) is a digital community history and archives lab based in the Northeastern University Library. One of our current projects involves taking an inventory of historical materials related to Boston’s Chinatown, and we have been using Wikibase to store multilingual data about the linked collections, organizations, and people. In this presentation, we will discuss our experience of getting started with a custom Wikibase and give an overview of our progress so far on the Chinatown Collections project. Amy Ruskin is the Data Engineer in the Digital Scholarship Group in the Northeastern University Library. She has a Master's degree in Information Studies from McGill University and a background in computer science and statistics. Registration link
Wikidata Office Hour GLAM-Hack − online meet-up about the "library world" with Wikidata. October 5th, 12.00 UTC (online via Zoom)
Ongoing
Wikimedia Österreich, in cooperation with Wikimedia Deutschland, started the DACH Culture Contest as a Börthday present for Wikidata 10th anniversary! It features two categories: "libraries in Austria, Germany and Switzerland" and "Culture in Austria, Germany and Switzerland". So if you would like to improve data about libraries, books, music, art, video games, cinema etc as a börthday treat, join us and get the chance to win some nice prizes! The contest will last until October 16, 2022.
The fourth edition of the Coolest Tool Award is looking for nominations. Please submit your favorite tools by October 12, 2022. The awarded projects will be announced and showcased in a virtual ceremony in December.
Thank you, Oronsay, for encouraging us to establish Women in Red's Topic for year-long focus in 2023. As a result of the discussions on the WiR talk page, the consensus appears to be "Peace & Diplomacy". I've added it to the Ideas page under 2023. As you may have seen, there was also considerable interest in "Education" which we should try to support either by emphasis in our monthly priorities or by introducing something new. (cc Rosiestep)--Ipigott (talk) 16:00, 5 October 2022 (UTC)
Good to hear from you, @Ipigott. With the addition of diplomacy, it will hopefully be broad enough to attract a good haul of new articles. Oronsay (talk) 22:01, 5 October 2022 (UTC)
Australia report: Behind the scenes with Australia's Wiki Loves Earth 2022 winner
Austria report: A Börthday present for Wikidata - the DACH Culture Contest
Brazil report: Reopening of Museu Paulista and other news
France report: Meeting with Prime minister cultural adviser; Residence at the Brittany Museum
India report: Digitisation of O Bharat, a bilingual biweekly published in Goa from 1912 to 1949
Indonesia report: GLAM Socialization; Wikistories for GLAM Competition
Italy report: September month of results and planning
Netherlands report: Wiki Loves Monuments Suriname first edition: 554 photos
New Zealand report: New Zealand Thesis Project and Te Papa Forget-me-nots
Poland report: The results of GLAM editing contest; GLAM Coordinators Meeting
Serbia report: External projects, great results and high level of independence
Sweden report: Bookfair back on site; Cultural history in High Schools; More identifiers from National Historical Museums of Sweden on Wikidata; Swedish general election 2022
USA report: Advocacy and Invention; New Smithsonian WiR; Called to Create; DC Statehood and Home Rule; Annual meeting; Wikipedian in Residence Opportunity at the Pérez Art Museum Miami
Kia ora Oronsay, I was just dropping in to say thanks for your interest in the article and raise the same matter. essa's been clear about not being a man or a woman (see this interview), so I'll remove them from the list. Thanks! Avocadobabygirl (talk) 21:40, 9 October 2022 (UTC)
Sorry about that, @Avocadobabygirl and @Chocmilk03. Poor assumption on my part – I was just looking for another incoming link. I'm concerned that notability may not be met as a longlisting is far short of winning a national award. Oronsay (talk) 22:19, 9 October 2022 (UTC)
Likewise, no worries at all, I thought I might've missed something. :) I agree it might be a bit of a close-run thing, although there is coverage of ranapiri in some additional secondary sources which can be added to the article and may support WP:BASIC: [1][2][3][4] (a couple of these reference the controversy over an apparently transphobic review of ranapiri's work published in the New Zealand Listener). I can add these later after work, or @Avocadobabygirl feel free? Cheers, Chocmilk03 (talk) 22:28, 9 October 2022 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #541
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Wikidata Tenth Birthday Speaker Series Week 1 (n part one we learn how Wikidata is (or is not) integrated into Wikipedia, how it helps an enormous cultural institution like the Smithsonian achieve its goals)
The fourth edition of the Coolest Tool Award is looking for nominations. Please submit your favorite tools by October 12, 2022. The awarded projects will be announced and showcased in a virtual ceremony in December.
MUL language code: fixed the order of languages shown in the termbox on desktop, especially when mul is used (phab:T311617)
Lexicographical data:
Made Special:NewLexemeAlpha use the same font as the rest of the wiki (phab:T313166) – this should be the last blocker for replacing the old special page
Disallowed *-x-qid with lowercase Q as Lexeme language codes in favor of *-x-Qid (phab:T317863)
REST API: worked on handling conditional HTTP request headers
Changed the unexpectedUnconnectedPage page prop so that Special:UnconnectedPages can show the latest pages first, which should finally resolve this old security task in production (phab:T300770)
Cleaned up the Wikibase and WikibaseLexeme ontology files (phab:T314360)
Added a few more globes for geocoordinates (phab:T314611) - Thanks, Mike!
Hello, Oronsay! I saw you are active in WikiProject Women, and was hoping you could help. I recently inquired to @Ipigott and @MarioGom with assistance removing the conflict of interest flag on Fawn Weaver. They requested I get an experienced editor to review the page content further, as some COI and UPE-related contributions are still a part of the article.
I did try to remove the flag manually in 2021 after learning of Fawn and her work with POCs - though as stated on Ipigott's Talk page, I don't have a conflict of interest with Fawn (I did edit the page without understanding its history, admittedly). I have now completed a thorough review of the content and citations, and everything now seems to be accurate and appropriate, though I would defer to you and your judgment. Would you be willing to review the page contents, and remove the flag (and any additional problematic content I may have missed, if there is any) once you have?
Of course, the other editors mentioned are free to contribute to the conversation and edits, if they have anything to add. Thank you! Jerr1966 (talk) 11:00, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
