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April Editathons from Women in Red

Women in Red Apr 2022, Vol 8, Issue 4, Nos 214, 217, 226, 227, 228 Online events: New: Gender studies | French overseas territories New Contest (Apr/May/Jun): Translation contest Continuing: Climate (year-long initiative) | #1day1woman Other ways to participate: Encourage someone to become a WiR member this month by registering in the box at the top of our main page. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events. Follow us on social media: Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Olympics

Hello. I've begun a deletion sorting page for articles about the Olympics which are nominated at AfD. Hope you find it useful. No Great Shaker (talk) 15:14, 23 March 2022 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 49

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 49, January – February 2022

• New library collections
• Blog post published detailing technical improvements

Read the full newsletter

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This Month in Education: March 2022

This Month in Education

Volume 11 • Issue 3 • March 2022

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• Arte+Feminismo Pilipinas:Advocacy on Women Empowerment
• The edit-a-thon on Serbian Wikipedia on the occasion of Edu Wiki Week
• Call for Participation: Higher Education Survey
• Collection of Good Practices in Wikipedia Education
• Conversation: Open education in the Wikimedia Movement views from Latin America
• EduWiki Week 2022, celebrations and learnings
• EduWiki Week in Armenia
• Open Education Week at the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León
• Wikipedia + Education Talk With Leonard Hagan
• Wikimedia Israel cooperates with Yad Vashem in developing a training course for teachers

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The Signpost: 27 March 2022

• From the Signpost team: How The Signpost is documenting the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine

• News and notes: Of safety and anonymity

• Eyewitness Wikimedian, Kharkiv, Ukraine: Countering Russian aggression with a camera

• Eyewitness Wikimedian, Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary

• Eyewitness Wikimedian, Western Ukraine: Working with Wikipedia helps

• Disinformation report: The oligarchs' socks

• In the media: Ukraine, Russia, and even some other stuff

• Recent research: Top scholarly citers, lack of open access references, predicting editor departures

• Wikimedian perspective: My heroes from Russia, Ukraine & beyond

• Discussion report: Athletes are less notable now

• Technology report: 2022 Wikimedia Hackathon

• Arbitration report: Skeptics given heavenly judgement, whirlwind of Discord drama begins to spin for tropical cyclone editors

• Traffic report: War, what is it good for?

• Deletion report: Ukraine, werewolves, Ukraine, YouTube pundits, and Ukraine

• Gallery: "All we are saying is, give peace a chance..."

• From the archives: Burn, baby burn

• Essay: Yes, the sky is blue

• Tips and tricks: Become a keyboard ninja

• On the bright side: The bright side of news

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This week's article for improvement (week 13, 2022)

Pumpkin pie is a dessert pie with a spiced, pumpkin-based custard filling. Hello, CAPTAIN RAJU. The article for improvement of the week is: Pumpkin pie Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Sikkimese cuisine • Letter (alphabet) Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 28 March 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Tagging user pages for deletion

Hi CAPTAIN RAJU, I was wondering if you've had a chance to get round to the question I asked about tagging pages for speedy deletion? Richard Nevell (WMUK) (talk) 10:32, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #513

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • The next Wikibase live session is 15:00 UTC on Thursday 31st March 2022 (17:00 Berlin time). What are you working on around Wikibase? You're welcome to come and share your project with the community.
    • Live Wikidata editing on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, March 29 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
    • ArtandFeminism 2022 editathon by Achiri Bitamsimli. Theme: Add Dagbani labels and descriptions of female lawyers in West Africa. Date: April 1st, 2022 - March 8th, 2022. Location: Tamale College of Education, Ghana. Time: 9:00am — 9:00pm UTC. Register.
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #77 - YouTube, Facebook, April 2nd at 18:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #102, April 3rd at 12.00 UTC
    • Cultural Venues Datathon: April 25 - May 2, 2022. This online editing event is organized by the Canadian Association for the Performing Arts, LaCogency and many partners, with support from Wikimedia Foundation Alliances Fund. Guided editing sessions will be facilitated in English and in French.
    • The Celtic Knot Conference, dedicated to underrepresented languages on the Wikimedia projects, with a focus on Wikidata, will take place online and onsite on July 1-2, 2022.
  • Ongoing:
    • Wikimedia Indonesia's Datathon program under 2022 Wiki Women's Month started on March 18th 18:00 UTC+7 and will last until March 25th 23:59 UTC+7. 70+ users enrollled. Page.
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #35, Water
  • Past:
    • Two Wikidata Training (Kelas Wikidata) on 2022 Wiki Women's Month were held online on March 12th and 13th.
    • Data Reuse Days. For a recap of the event:
      • a selection of sessions are recorded, you can find the videos here or below
      • speakers will progressively add their slides in this Commons category
      • all notes and Q&A of sessions are archived here: Wikidata:Events/Data Reuse Days 2022/Outcomes/notes

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Lexicographical Data for Language Learners: The Wikidata-based App Scribe
    • Inaugural Wikidata Fellows announced, Wikimedia Australia
    • Wikidata’s lexemes sparked this librarian’s interest
    • Actress-singers and actor-singers: do actresses become singers and singers become actors? fact checking an intuition using Wikidata
    • Building a Web of Knowledge Through Wikidata
  • Presentations
    • LOTUS, Beyond drug discovery: Breaking the boundaries of natural products information, at the American Chemical Society (Q247556) Spring 2022 meeting
  • Papers
    • "Exploratory Methods for Relation Discovery in Archival Data" - a holistic approach to discover relations in art historical communities and enrich historians’ biographies and archival descriptions, based on Wikidata
  • Videos
    • DataReuseDays 2022 concluded. (see past events above for a full list of the recorded sessions)
    • A simple demonstration of search using QAnswer software for the disability wikibase knowledge graph - YouTube
    • FAIR and Open multilingual clinical trials in Wikidata - YouTube
    • Using Mix'n'match (in Italian) - YouTube
    • A Triangular Connection Libraries' Wikidata projects on names, collections and users - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Scribe is a keyboard extension based on lexicographical data that can help users remember grammar rules (see blogpost above).
  • WorldlEH is a wordle clone in Basque.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Status update about what was achieved for each of the Wikibase related 2021 development goals has been published: Wikidata:Development plan/archive2021/status updates
  • Call for Mentors: Wiki Mentor Africa is a mentorship project for tool creators/contributors. Interested to become a mentor (experienced tool creators/contributors), please visit this page!
  • Wikidata now has over 1,600,000,000 edits! The milestone edit was made by Ruky Wunpini.
  • The Dutch National Library has a new website with more info on their use of the Wikimedia Projects including their work with Wikidata.
  • 2 months paid internship vacancy is available for Wikimedia Indonesia technology division. Registration is open until March 27th. Announcement.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: documentation files at
    • External identifiers: SINGULART artist ID, eBru ID, ICCROM authority ID, Legal entity registered by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic ID, Rekhta book ID, ILO code, reddoorz hotel ID, Naver VIBE video ID, SberZvuk artist ID, Italian Women Writers ID, RBC company ID, Madrean Discovery Expeditions Flora Database ID, Madrean Discovery Expeditions Fauna Database ID, Encyclopedia of Transbaikalia ID, Encyclopedia of Transbaikalia person ID, Booking.com numeric ID, Agoda hotel numeric ID, Australian Reptile Online Database ID, RSPA modern authors ID, RSPA ancient authors ID, 1905.com film ID, Leafsnap ID, ImagesDéfense ID, TASS Encyclopedia person ID, TASS Encyclopedia country ID, TASS Encyclopedia tag ID, WIPO Pearl term ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: maintains consistent linking to, ocupante de / occupant of
    • External identifiers: World of Waterfalls ID, New IDU properties, My World@Mail.Ru ID, BillionGraves grave ID, Archivio Storico Intesa Sanpaolo, GEMET ID, Enciclopedia del Novecento ID, Trovo ID, Invasive.org species ID, ihg Hotel ID, Monoskop article ID, Le Monde journalist ID, Libération journalist ID, Le Parisien journalist ID, Les Échos journalist ID, L'Humanité journalist ID, L'Opinion journalist ID, Le Figaro journalist ID, Présent author ID, Aldiwan poet ID, Aldiwan poem ID, International Jewish Cemetery Project ID
  • Query examples:
    • Wikidata knowledge graph of Elizabeth Keckley, dressmaker to U.S. First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln (source)
    • Women who served as defense ministers in various countries (source)
    • UK MPs who had paired names (e.g. Owen Thomas / Thomas Owen) (source)
    • List of properties associated with items that are class/subclass of File Format (source)
    • Table frequency of properties used in instances of public libraries

• Development
  • [Significant Change]: wbsearchentities changed to explicitly return display terms and matched term
  • Lexicographical data: Working on the lookup for language and lexical category and displaying potential errors during Lexeme creation
  • Improved the API response of the wbsearchentities endpoint by adding the language to the labels and descriptions in the API response (phab:T104344)
  • Data Reuse Days: Second and final week - organized, attended and held a few sessions incl. bug triage hour and pink pony session
  • REST API: Continuing work on getting the the data of an Item, we almost have filtering of the data returned by the API and basic error handling is in place. Next up: not returning the data if the client already has the most recent data, and authentication

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.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 13:00, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-13

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

• There is a simple new Wikimedia Commons upload tool available for macOS users, Sunflower.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 March. It will be on all wikis from 31 March (calendar).
• Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of regular database maintenance. It will be performed on 29 March at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 31 March at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis). [1][2]

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19:53, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

Happy April 1

Don't open this!
What the?! Happy April Fool's Day! Thanks for your contributions to improve the dissemination of free knowledge to humanity! North America1000 15:31, 1 April 2022 (UTC)

Check it!

This week's article for improvement (week 14, 2022)

Paddle ball is a one-person game played with a paddle and an attached ball. Hello, CAPTAIN RAJU. The article for improvement of the week is: Paddle ball Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Pumpkin pie • Sikkimese cuisine Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 4 April 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Wikidata weekly summary #514

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: APSbot 4: Task/s: Regularly create organizations from the Research Organization Registry (ROR - https://ror.org/) that are missing in Wikidata.

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Adam Schiff (University of Washington), Tyler Rogers (San Diego State University), Julia Gilmore (University of Toronto) on documenting buildings on academic campuses. Agenda with call link, April 5.
    • Wikimedia Research Office Hours April 5, 2022
    • Wikidata items about theatre and dance productions, April 6 (in French). The same workshop will be offered in English on May 4.
    • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—April 6th, 2022. Date: Wednesday, April 6th, 2022 Time: 15:00-16:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PDT / 11:00-12:00 EDT / 16:00-17:00 WAT / 17:00-18:00 CEST Etherpad
    • Art+Feminism Community Hours. Theme: Add your Event Data to Wikidata. April 9 at 2pm UTC!
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #36, Family
  • Past: Wikibase live session (March 2022) log

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Property exploration: How do I learn more about properties on Wikidata?
    • UCSC Ph.D. students dive deep into engineering open-domain dialogue AI with the support of industry partners. "...aims to develop a better system for entity linking, the connection of entities like “Lebron James” or “the Earth” to their various meanings in an existing database of knowledge – in this case, Wikidata..."
    • Highlighting linked data projects. "...Cornell University Library, Stanford Libraries, and the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Iowa are engaging in the grant-funded Linked Data for Production project. Broadly, the project uses linked data to show patrons information from outside sources (such as Wikidata) and build longer, more nuanced links between resources".
  • Videos
    • The Share-VDE project and its relationship with Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
    • Create a Wikidata page from scratch (in French) - YouTube
    • Clinical Trials, Wikidata and Systems Biology (in Portuguese) - YouTube
    • New WikidataCon 2021 videos uploaded on YouTube
      • Your favorite interface gadgets on Wikidata
      • Wikidata Query Service scaling challenges
      • Decolonizing Wikidata: Q&A session
      • Wikidata et l’écosystème de données ouvertes liées pour les arts de la scène (in French)
      • Respectfully representing Indigenous knowledge in Wikidata
  • Other
    • FAIR cookbook's recipe "How to Register a Dataset with Wikidata"
    • OpenRefine will soon hold its two-yearly survey again. Who wants to help translate the survey to their language? It will take around 45 minutes. There are already translations underway in Spanish and Dutch. Contact User:SFauconnier if you want to help!

• Tool of the week
  • Kyrksok.se is an app about Swedish churches based on Wikidata.
  • QAnswer is a question answering system based on Wikidata and other projects. Who was the first to create liquid helium? Try it!

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata Query Service scaling update, March 2022 is now available.
  • WDQS backend alternatives paper with shortlist of options have been published.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: cantilever sign, supports qualifier, APE code
    • External identifiers: Australian Reptile Online Database ID, RSPA modern authors ID, RSPA ancient authors ID, 1905.com film ID, Leafsnap ID, ImagesDéfense ID, TASS Encyclopedia person ID, TASS Encyclopedia country ID, TASS Encyclopedia tag ID, WIPO Pearl term ID, Arizona State Legislators: Then & Now ID, db.narb.by ID, Kayak hotel ID, Melon music video ID, Evil Angel movie ID, ACE Repertory publisher ID, World of Waterfalls ID, IxTheo authority ID, BillionGraves grave ID, eSbírky institution ID, Enciclopedia del Novecento ID, Zotero ID, My World@Mail.Ru ID, KSH code (historical), traveloka activities ID, Virginia Tech Dendrology Factsheets ID, SPLC group ID, GuideStar India Organisations-ID, Encyclopedia of China ID (Third Edition), tiket to-do ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: oeconym, ISCED Attainment, Per capita income
    • External identifiers: Invasive.org species ID, ihg Hotel ID, Monoskop article ID, Le Monde journalist ID, Libération journalist ID, Le Parisien journalist ID, Les Échos journalist ID, L'Humanité journalist ID, L'Opinion journalist ID, Le Figaro journalist ID, Présent author ID, Aldiwan poet ID, Aldiwan poem ID, International Jewish Cemetery Project ID, AccessScience ID, IPU Chamber ID, COL taxon ID, deckenmalerei.eu ID, C-SPAN Person Numeric ID, SRSLY person ID, 100 Years of Alaska's Legislature Bio ID, Indiana State Historical Marker Program numeric ID, Beatport track ID, EIA plant ID, EIA utility ID, Speleologi del passato ID, HuijiWiki article ID, Encyclopedia of Cacti species ID
  • Query examples:
    • Long swedish / german nouns in Wikidata (source)
    • Texts which have Wikisource links in English and French (source)

• Development
  • Lexicographical data: Continued work on the new Special:NewLexeme page and focused on displaying sensible error messages if an error occurs during Lexeme creation. We're also working on adding a dropdown for the language variant.
  • REST API: Continued work on conditional requests and authorization
  • Made use of the new fields added in the wbsearchentities API and added language information to the markup of entity searches that you see when editing a statement or searching with the little searchbox at the top of the page on Wikidata. Now these search results should make a bit more sense to people who use screen readers.

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.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 12:33, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-14

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

• For a few days last week, edits that were suggested to newcomers were not tagged in the Special:RecentChanges feed. This bug has been fixed. [3]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 April. It will be on all wikis from 7 April (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 7 April at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).

Future changes

• Starting next week, Tech News' title will be translatable. When the newsletter is distributed, its title may not be Tech News: 2022-14 anymore. It may affect some filters that have been set up by some communities. [4]
• Over the next few months, the "Add a link" Growth feature will become available to more Wikipedias. Each week, a few wikis will get the feature. You can test this tool at a few wikis where "Link recommendation" is already available.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

20:59, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

hi

hi raju , whatss up. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anatoli eye (talk • contribs) 08:26, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2022).

Administrator changes

Firefly • Sdrqaz

Ad Orientem

Geschichte • Ryan Postlethwaite • Sabine's Sunbird • Wassupwestcoast

Interface administrator changes

Evad37

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open proposing a change to the minimum activity requirements for administrators.

Technical news

• Access to Special:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have the deletelogentry and deletedhistory rights. This means that those in the Researcher user group and Checkusers who are not administrators can now access Special:RevisionDelete. The users able to view the special page after this change are the 3 users in the Researcher group, as there are currently no checkusers who are not already administrators. (T301928)
• When viewing deleted revisions or diffs on Special:Undelete a back link to the undelete page for the associated page is now present. (T284114)

Arbitration

• Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Procedures § Opening of proceedings has been updated to reflect current practice following a motion.
• A arbitration case regarding Skepticism and coordinated editing has been closed.
• A arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been opened.

Miscellaneous

• Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines has closed, and the results were that 56.98% of voters supported the guidelines. The results of this vote mean the Wikimedia Foundation Board will now review the guidelines.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:12, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

SHUT up

SHUT up stop it Kazamimariaelena (talk) 17:49, 8 April 2022 (UTC)

Why are you bullying me?

Stop bullying me...I’m new here and trying to learn the ropes why are you nominating my account for speedy deletion?...without even prove of any foul play by me...I won’t sit back and take it Dinfoman (talk) 23:07, 9 April 2022 (UTC)

Earth Day 2022 Edit-a-thon - April 22nd - 2PM EST

You're invited! NYC Earth Day 2022 Edit-a-thon! April 22nd!

Sure We Can and the Environment of New York City Task Force invite you to join us for: 2022 Earth Day Edit-a-thon 2pm - 4pm EST (April 22nd) online via Zoom and in person This Edit-a-Thon is part of a larger Earth Day celebration, hosted by Brooklyn based recycling and community center Sure We Can, that runs from 1PM-7PM and is open to the public! See this flyer for more information: https://www.instagram.com/p/CcGr4FyuqEa/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

-- Environment of New York City Task Force

This week's article for improvement (week 15, 2022)

In telecommunications, broadband is wide bandwidth data transmission which transports multiple signals at a wide range of frequencies and Internet traffic types, that enables messages to be sent simultaneously, used in fast internet connections. Pictured is a chart of global bandwidth concentration: 3 countries have almost 50% between them; 10 countries almost 75%. Hello, CAPTAIN RAJU. The article for improvement of the week is: Broadband Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Paddle ball • Pumpkin pie Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 11 April 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Wikidata weekly summary #515

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Stang (RfP scheduled to end after 14 April 2022 12:18 UTC)
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Botcrux 10. Task/s: Change publication date (P577) of scientific articles from "1 January YYYY" to just "YYYY".
    • Pi bot 25. Task/s: Wikidata:Properties for deletion maintenance

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #104, April 17th at 12.00 UTC
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, April 20th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
    • April 26, Ghent, Belgium: public OpenRefine data cleaning workshop and meet&greet with the OpenRefine team, including preview of Structured Data on Commons functionalities. Physical event, free, sign up via this link.
    • Wiki Workshop 2022 - Registration open! The event is virtually held on April 25, 12:00-18:30 UTC
    • April 22nd - 24th, from Wiki Mentor Africa, A three days workshop on Linking biodiversity data through wikidata using Webaps and jupyter notebooks to attend, register here
    • May 5th: Wikidata Bug Triage Hour, open discussion. Come with your favorite Phabricator task and we will improve its description together.
    • DigAMus goes Wikidata workshop: make digital projects in museums visible and findable. April 29, 3-5 p.m. TIB Open Science Lab. Register here.
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #37, Numbers

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Smithsonian Libraries and Archives & Wikidata: Chinese Ancestor Portrait Project
    • Browsing FactGrid with the FactGrid Viewer
  • Papers
    • A formalization of one of the main claims of “Cortex reorganization of Xenopus laevis eggs in strong static magnetic fields” by Mietchen et al. 2005 (uses Wikidata identifiers for statements)
    • A formalization of one of the main claims of “Creative Commons licenses and the non-commercial condition: Implications for the re-use of biodiversity information” by Hagedorn et al. 2011 (uses Wikidata identifiers for statements)
  • Videos
    • Wikidata Query Service Tutorial in Tunisian by Houcemeddine Turki (WikiConference RU 2021 - Part 1, Part 2)
    • Live Coding - PyORCIDAtor, integrating ORCID with Wikidata - YouTube
    • How to add location coordinates to Wikidata Items (in Dagbani) - YouTube
    • Bundestag + Wikidata = Open Parliament TV (in German) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Glitter another R package to write SPARQL queries and query Wikidata and other SPARQL endpoints. This package provides a domain specific language to write queries directly from R.
  • Conzept is a topic-exploration tool based on Wikidata and other information sources.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Wikidata MOOC (online course) has been developed by Wikimedia France, involving several French-speaking Wikidata editors. The first version of the course will start on April 26 (in French only - registration here)
  • OpenRefine is running a short survey to learn about user needs and expectations for the new Structured Data on Commons extension for OpenRefine, which is in the process of being developed. If you upload files to Wikimedia Commons and/or edit structured data there, please help by filling in the survey!
  • Wikibase cloud update (April): the closed beta of Wikibase.cloud is planned to start in mid-April. If you want to apply for closed beta access, please register with this form.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: APE code, maintains linking to, academic calendar type, taxonomic treatment, co-applicant, applicant, P10604, notable role
    • External identifiers: traveloka activities ID, Virginia Tech Dendrology Factsheets ID, SPLC group ID, GuideStar India Organisations ID, Encyclopedia of China ID (Third Edition), tiket to-do ID, Speleologi del passato ID, L'Humanité journalist ID, L'Opinion journalist ID, Le Monde journalist ID, Le Figaro journalist ID, Le Parisien journalist ID, Les Échos journalist ID, Libération journalist ID, Intesa Sanpaolo Historical Archive Map ID, Monoskop article ID, IDU foreign theatre ID, IDU theatre building ID, IDU theatrical ensemble ID, Cameroun COG, Author ID from the Modern Discussion website, SRSLY person ID, FAOTERM ID, Catalogue of Life ID, Trovo ID, IFPI GTIN, MangaDex title ID, All.Rugby club ID, traveloka restaurant ID, maPZS trails/locations ID, Kinowiki ID, marriott hotel ID, Chuvash Encyclopedia person ID, Chuvash Encyclopedia place ID, Chuvash Encyclopedia topic ID, HarperCollins product ID, Atlas of Cultural Heritage Calabria cultural place ID, XJustiz registration court ID, Atlante Beni Culturali Calabria item ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: является автором художественной выставки, shoe color, government debt-to-GDP ratio, National Historical Museums of Sweden object ID, class of property value, has group, name of victim, Tracks featured in work, smb.museum digital ID
    • External identifiers: HuijiWiki article ID, Encyclopedia of Cacti species ID, bebyggelseområdeskod i Sverige, Israeli Opera site person id, FISH Archaeological Objects Thesaurus Identifier, Musik und Gender im Internet ID, IRIS Piedmont IDs, Slovak Olympic athlete ID, MINEDEX, Library of the Haskala ID
  • Query examples:
    • Most popular Chess openings (by number of sitelinks) (source)
    • Random set of popular ("having more than 20 site links") items (source)
    • Wikimedia affiliates on social media (source)
    • Listed viaducts in the UK (source)
    • Pages linked to the University of Clermont according to the number of articles on Wikimedia projects (source)
    • Which languages share a word for the same thing (visualized as a tree map). e.g. planet (source)

• Development
  • Lexicographical data: Continued work on the new Special:NewLexeme page. We worked on displaying error messages and inferring the spelling variant from the language. We also looked into the non-JavaScript version of the page.
  • REST API: Worked on conditional requests (do not return data the client already has) and authorization.

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.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2022-15

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

• There is a new public status page at www.wikimediastatus.net. This site shows five automated high-level metrics where you can see the overall health and performance of our wikis' technical environment. It also contains manually-written updates for widespread incidents, which are written as quickly as the engineers are able to do so while also fixing the actual problem. The site is separated from our production infrastructure and hosted by an external service, so that it can be accessed even if the wikis are briefly unavailable. You can read more about this project.
• On Wiktionary wikis, the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [5][6]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 April. It will be on all wikis from 14 April (calendar).

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19:43, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

A cookie for you!

Thanks for wishing so many people happy birthday! 𝕸𝖗 𝕽𝖊𝖆𝖉𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝕿𝖚𝖗𝖙𝖑𝖊 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 (talk) 00:12, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: March 2022

This Month in GLAM – Volume XII, Issue III, March 2022 Headlines Argentina report: Visual culture, human rights and digitization Australia report: Australia grows gender equity for International Women's Day Belgium report: Collaboration with GLAM institutes in Belgium Brazil report: Pills of GLAM Croatia report: ...starting bottom-up in indie archive! Estonia report: Glass, Books and Paintings France report: Mooc Wikidata India report: Wikimedian-in-Residence program initiated at the Research Institute of World's Ancient Traditions, Cultures and Heritage in Arunachal Pradesh Italy report: The growth of sharing on Wikimedia projects Netherlands report: Letters from Sierra Leone: the Sjoerd Hofstra photo collection in a new light New Zealand report: Forming Wikimedia Aotearoa and the Aotearoa New Zealand Theses Project Serbia report: News in Wikipedian in residence projects Spain report: WikiToro Sweden report: The Unique Historical Kalmar County project continues ...; WikiGap x 3; Students writing articles UK report: Khalili Collections Uruguay report: GLAM Activities by Wikimedia Uruguay USA report: Women's History Month Content Partnerships Hub report: UN Environment Programme sharing their knowledge on Wikipedia. Logo competition Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: OpenRefine: survey for Structured Data on Commons features WMF GLAM report: Commons APP calls, Bophana documentaries, and Image Description Week Calendar: April's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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GOCE April 2022 newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors April 2022 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the April newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since December 2021. Election results: Jonesey95 retired as lead coordinator. Reidgreg was approved to fill this role after an 18-month absence from the coordinator team, and Baffle gab1978 was chosen as an assistant coordinator following a one-year break. Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Tenryuu continued on as long-standing assistant coordinators. January Drive: Of the 22 editors who signed up, 16 editors claimed 146 copy edits including 45 requests. (details) February Blitz: This one-week effort focused on requests and a theme of Africa and African diaspora history. Of the 12 editors who signed up, 6 editors recorded 21 copy edits, including 4 requests. (details) March Drive: Of the 28 editors who signed up, 18 claimed 116 copy edits including 25 requests. (details) April Blitz: This one-week copy editing event has been scheduled for 17–23 April, sign up now! Progress report: As of 11 April, copy editors have removed approximately 500 articles from the backlog and completed 127 copy-editing requests during 2022. The backlog has been hovering at about 1,100 tagged articles for the past six months. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Reidgreg, Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Tenryuu To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Apr 24: Wiki-Picnic and WikiSeder in Brooklyn

April 24, 2-5pm: Wiki-Picnic and WikiSeder in Brooklyn

Fort Greene Park. You are invited to join us for a planned outdoor gathering with the local Wikimedia NYC community at the barbecue area of Brooklyn's Fort Greene Park. All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person you should be vaccinated and also be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate. Sunday April 24 Wiki-Picnic and WikiSeder (RSVP on-wiki). 2:00 - 5:00 pm (Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn)

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CIS-A2K Newsletter March 2022

Dear Wikimedians,

Hope you are doing well. As you know CIS-A2K updated the communities every month about their previous work through the Newsletter. This message is about March 2022 Newsletter. In this newsletter, we have mentioned our conducted events and ongoing events.

Conducted events

• Wikimedia session in Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh
• Launching of the GLAM project with RIWATCH, Roing, Arunachal Pradesh
• Wikimedia Commons workshop for Rotary Water Olympiad team
• m:International Women's Month 2022 edit-a-thon
• m:Indic Wikisource Proofreadthon March 2022
• Relicensing & digitisation of books, audios, PPTs and images in March 2022
• Presentation on A2K Research in a session on 'Building Multilingual Internets'

Ongoing events

• Wikimedia Commons workshop for Rotary Water Olympiad team
• Two days of edit-a-thon by local communities [Punjabi & Santali]

Please find the Newsletter link here. Thank you Nitesh (CIS-A2K) (talk) 09:33, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

On behalf of User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K)

This week's article for improvement (week 16, 2022)

Astrid Lindgren was a Swedish writer of fiction and screenplays who is best known for several series of children's books. Pictured is Lindgren around 1960. Hello, CAPTAIN RAJU. The article for improvement of the week is: Astrid Lindgren Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Broadband • Paddle ball Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 18 April 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Wikidata weekly summary #516

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Pi admin bot (RfP scheduled to end after 20 April 2022 17:58 UTC)
  • Closed request for adminship: Stang (successful)
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Stangbot 2. Task/s: Insert electorate (P1831) and keep it updated on Brazilian municipalities and states items
    • AmeisenBot. Task/s: Label unsigned comments on talk pages

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call will be on Tuesday, April 19 at 11 AM Eastern US time: Martin Schibel will be speaking on Entitree. Please note this is one hour earlier than the usual meeting time Agenda
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, April 20th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
    • LD4 Wikibase Working Hour: Learn about Wikibase system exploration, data model development, and the road ahead for Digital Scriptorium. When: Thurs. 21 April 2022, 3PM Eastern US (time zone converter). Where: Registration Link
    • Register for Contribuling – Conference on minority languages and free participative software. Conference date: April 22
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #105, April 24th at 12.00 UTC

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • WeDigBio Transcription workflow "...blogpost...showing how I go from finding the name of a collector when transcribing labels to adding them to Wikidata & then linking them to their collections via Bionomia."
    • More Wikidata metrics on the Dashboard
  • Videos
    • Transfer bibliographic data from Zotero to Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
    • Art+Feminism community Hours: Add your event data to Wikidata! - YouTube (En, Fr)
  • other:
    • Decolonizing the Internet’s Structured Data – Summary Report by Whose Knowledge?

• Tool of the week
  • Bird O'Clock! is a tool based on Wikidata and other data sources that shows pictures and numbers from actual people counting actual birds in the actual world!
  • Tiago's Coin Herbarium is a coin collection depicting different plant information displayed via Wikidata SPARQL queries.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata and Wikibase 2022 development plan has been updated to include activity estimates for the second quarter (Q2).
  • There is a new hub page for the Wikidata Query Service scaling updates, to help you all stay updated.
  • Wikidata metrics are now easily accessible on the Dashboard. Here's an example Dashboard including a blog post above detailing the process.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: taxonomic treatment, co-applicant, applicant, type of a register in Germany, notable role, athletics program, number of teachers, has certification, choreography for, surrounds the enclave, has surface, per capita income, number of blood donors, official observer status in organisation, web interface software, Martian coordinates, suggested data fields, medical indication, number of conferences, historic insurance number (building), pole positions, place of disappearance, code name, reports to, podium finishes, number of likes, number of dislikes, number of comments, rack system, oeconym
    • External identifiers: MangaDex title ID, All.Rugby club ID, traveloka restaurant ID, maPZS trails/locations ID, Kinowiki ID, marriott hotel ID, Chuvash Encyclopedia person ID, Chuvash Encyclopedia place ID, Chuvash Encyclopedia topic ID, HarperCollins product ID, Atlas of Cultural Heritage Calabria cultural place ID, XJustiz registration court ID, Atlante Beni Culturali Calabria item ID, FID performing arts ID, PLOS Thesaurus ID, QQ Music album ID, QQ Music song ID, Beatport track ID, Salzburger Literatur Netz ID, Kramerius of Regional Library in Pardubice UUID, Literatur Netz Oberösterreich ID, 1905.com star ID, OpaqueNamespace ID, deckenmalerei.eu ID, ODOT county code, OpenSanctions ID, CNGAL entry ID, USA Track & Field athlete ID (www.usatf.org), National Associations Register Number Spain, AperTO author ID, IRIS UNIUPO author ID, AlloCiné TV season ID, Library of Parliament of Canada riding ID, ARTEINFORMADO person ID, Slovak Olympic athlete ID, International Jewish Cemetery Project ID, Via Rail station code, WikiApiary farm
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: name of victim, Tracks featured in work, smb.museum digital ID, Unique image of unicode char, Historic Oregon Newspapers ID, Thai Romanization, construction start, construction end
    • External identifiers: MINEDEX, Library of the Haskala ID, fanvue creator ID, ACNP library ID, lieferando restaurant ID, Yarus feed ID, Enciclopedia Colchagüina ID, Winterthur Glossar ID, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society ID, Personality Database work identifier, Hmoegirlpedia, CNKI Institute ID, Peacock ID, techradar review ID
  • Query examples:
    • Birthplace of rappers (source)
    • Bubble chart of occupation of people linked to University of Clermont (source)
    • List of corporate archives, location, and address where available (source)
    • French adventure video games (source)
    • Women with the citizenship of a country and the most articles in other languages (including English) but without an article in French Wikipedia (source)
    • Countries that are bigger (blue) or smaller (red) than all their neighbours (source)

• Development
  • Lexicographical data: Worked on inferring the spelling variant from the language's Item on the new Special:NewLexeme page and started building a little help box on the special page to explain what lex. data is.
  • REST API: Getting closer to having a first version of the REST API that returns Item data.

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.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 13:42, 18 April 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-16

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 19 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 April. It will be on all wikis from 21 April (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 19 April at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 21 April at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
• Administrators will now have the option to delete/undelete the associated "Talk" page when they are deleting a given page. An API endpoint with this option is also available. This concludes the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.
• On selected wikis, 50% of logged-in users will see the new table of contents. When scrolling up and down the page, the table of contents will stay in the same place on the screen. This is part of the Desktop Improvements project. [7]
• Message boxes produced by MediaWiki code will no longer have these CSS classes: successbox, errorbox, warningbox. The styles for those classes and messagebox will be removed from MediaWiki core. This only affects wikis that use these classes in wikitext, or change their appearance within site-wide CSS. Please review any local usage and definitions for these classes you may have. This was previously announced in the 28 February issue of Tech News.

Future changes

• Kartographer will become compatible with FlaggedRevisions page stabilization. Kartographer maps will also work on pages with pending changes. [8] The Kartographer documentation has been thoroughly updated. [9] [10] [11]

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23:10, 18 April 2022 (UTC)