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Question from ZilleghemFolk (13:16, 3 August 2024)

This account was created by mistake. I cannot find any information how to delete the account? --ZilleghemFolk (talk) 13:16, 3 August 2024 (UTC)

ZilleghemFolk Good day. There is no delete for any account created in Wikipedia. Pls remember your password and your username (Wikipedia do not store any user passwords) so when in the future you want to edit then you can sign in and start editing. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 00:35, 4 August 2024 (UTC)

Question from Gpsc87587 (07:48, 5 August 2024)

How do I create or edit the articles --Gpsc87587 (talk) 07:48, 5 August 2024 (UTC)

Gpsc87587 Good day and thank you for the questions. To edit an article, click on "edit source" on the top left of the article and start editing. However, any info added or changed need to be supported by independent, reliable source such as from the newspapers or books. To add the inline citation of the claim, pls use the horizontal format of Template:Cite Web if the source is from the web. I strongly suggest you to complete a short program - WP:TWA to understand the basic guidelines of Wikipedia prior editing. To create an article, the subject needs meet ]WP:GNG = the subject needs to have significant coverage from independent, reliable sources such as from books and major newspaper where by the sources talk about the subject in length and in depth and not passing mentioned for verification. Pls note that all source media, subject website, or any sources that is related to the subject can be used to contribute to the criteria of GNG. I suggest you to read WP:Your first article and follow the instructions. in addition, pls read the welcome message I sent you. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 07:58, 5 August 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #639

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-08-05. Please help Translate.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • Numberguy6Bot - Task: Add links to Wiktionary categories in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Russian.
  • UmisBot - Task: This bot will add string representations of units of measurement to units of measurement Wikidata pages.
  • ZLBot - Task: request SPARQLs for RAG.

Events

• Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call 6 August, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call on Tuesday, 6 August, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter). Please join us for a Busy Summer Fun Wikidata Editing Hour, an hour of uninterrupted Wikidata editing time to work on your own Wikidata projects. Agenda.
• Wikimania is August 7-10. Here is a curated a list of Wikimania sessions focused around Wikidata, or have *some* connection to Wikidata: 2024:Program/Wikidata. Please add to the list if something is missing.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: Olympics medalists, not by country, but by NUTS region, By Giorgio Comai
• Papers
  • Discovering life's directed metabolic (sub)paths to interpret human biochemical markers using the DSMN tool
  • SPINACH: SPARQL-Based Information Navigation for Challenging Real-World Questions - The SPINACH dataset, derived from Wikidata's "Request a Query" forum, offers a more complex and challenging KBQA dataset with 320 question-SPARQL pairs, designed to test the capabilities of KBQA systems in navigating large and incomplete knowledge base schemas.
• Videos
  • Using Wikidata to navigate the web (Wikimania Katowice) - Tool demo: Entity Explosion
  • Use Wikidata and Lexeme to understand Minnan - COSCUP 2024 (Conference for Open Source Coders, Users, and Promoters)

Tool of the week

• Forage - a user script that provides an additional editing interface that makes editing easier, by showing the expected properties for a page (based on its "instance of" values), and providing simple inputs to let users add values for any such property. To install Forage, just add the following line to the common.js subpage under your user page on Wikidata, i.e. wikidata.org/wiki/User:Your username here/common.js: importScript('User:Techwizzie/forage.js');

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The Wikibase REST API, introduced last year on Wikidata, is progressing towards version 1, aiming for a comprehensive release by the end of 2024. We're seeking community feedback to enhance the current API and plan future developments. Please share your thoughts on this page: Feedback on the Wikibase REST API (July/August 2024).
• Abdulai Yorli Iddrisu (WMDE) has joined the Software Communication team (SCoT) at Wikimedia Deutschland as an intern until the end of September 2024. Welcome Yorli!
• Wikidata now has a shiny new landing page for developers: Wikidata:For developers

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • writing technique (technique used for writing on stone, paper or other support)
  • last appearance (last work featuring a fictional character or item)
  • Tüik mahalle ID (identifier of neighborhoods (mahalle) in Turkey in TÜİK (Turkish Statistical Institute) database)
  • Sandbox-EntitySchema (Sandbox property for value of type "EntitySchema")
  • myfixguide.com Category ID (photos about how to repair hardware)
  • indexer (entity responsible for compiling an index of a book, database, website or other forms of media publications in the form of a methodical arrangement of records designed to enable users to locate information quickly)
  • object of action (specific object to which an action or class of actions occurs)
  • object class of action (class of objects (including substances) to which an action or class of actions may occur)
  • public funding (amount of public funding an organisation receives)
• Newest External identifiers: Google Play author ID, ‎Overcast episode ID, ArchWiki article, Valencian Library ID, ‎Star Wars.com ID, ScienceDirect journal ID, Filmová databáze film ID, Filmová databáze person ID, FC Krasnodar player ID, Iraqnla book ID, Alle Burgen ID, Italian-English Dictionary ID, islamway authority ID, Metamath statement ID, Imperial University of Dorpat student ID, Coptic Dictionary Online ID, English-Italian Dictionary ID, autoritateak.eus ID, Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts artist ID, Nintendo Life company ID, Wiley Online Library journal ID, Museums in Russia ID, Helveticat ID, ARABTERM entry ID, Hawramani Arabic Lexicon entry ID, Women in Resistance ID, French-English Dictionary ID, German-English Dictionary ID, Emerald Group Publishing journal ID, Taylor & Francis journal ID, JTA Sightseeing Database ID, WorldCyclingStats ID, The New Mithraeum ID, Finnish Ministers database ID (new), State Historical Museum of Russia person ID, mandumah ID, Educational center of resistance and deportation of Landes ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (French edition) ID, FDC ID, French bathing water ID, Norwegian Kunstnerforbundet artist ID, Political Dictionary ID, United Nations Digital Library ID, U.S. Copyright Office Public Records System work ID, 365scores player ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • date de vote (vote date, date on which people decided or cast their ballot)
  • schmeckt nach (taste that a food or drink has)
  • Military Grid Reference System ID (geocoordinate standard used by NATO militaries for locating points on Earth)
  • has semantic role (2nd proposal) (item that describes a role in an event/action class)
  • growth rate (growth rate of something over time)
  • lifespan (duration of a person's known or recorded lifespan)
  • APPF registration status (status of registration of this entity with the Authority for European political parties and European political foundation)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Thinkwiki article, SideReel series ID, SideReel series URL slug, africanmusiclibrary.org artist id, Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur beer ID, Glosbe Old High German Lexeme ID, Tretyakov Gallery artist ID, Religion Past and Present Online (German edition) ID, identifiant FranceTerme, Yediot Books book ID, 365scores player ID, xdaforums, GamingOnLinux Database ID, Akademický slovník současné češtiny ID, TIPLOC code, IDU play ID, FolkWiki ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Image gallery of the most notable sculptures (source)
  • Authors that cite your article(s), Authors that you cite (source)
• WikiProject Highlights: Sculptures by collection: an Integraality dashboard for WikiProject Sculpture
• Newest database reports: Dagbani Lexemes that wrongly include the grammatical gender property P5185
• Showcase Items: Chinua Achebe (Q155845) - Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic
• Showcase Lexemes: Stuorra Dorskavuotna (L636928) - fjord in Hammerfest, Norway (Northern Sami proper noun)

Development

• mul language code: The new language code has been rolled out in a limited way. We are looking through feedback now.
• mul release: The full release of the "mul" language code feature to Wikidata, originally scheduled for August 12, may be delayed as we have uncovered a few issues during testing that could potentially block the scheduled release.

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.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country: Bermuda
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• 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: 2024-32

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

Feature news

• Two new parser functions will be available this week: {{#dir}} and {{#bcp47}}. These will reduce the need for Template:Dir and Template:BCP47 on Commons and allow us to drop 100 million rows from the "what links here" database. Editors at any wiki that use these templates, can help by replacing the templates with these new functions. The templates at Commons will be updated during the Hackathon at Wikimania. [1][2]
• Communities can request the activation of the visual editor on entire namespaces where discussions sometimes happen (for instance Wikipedia: or Wikisource: namespaces) if they understand the known limitations. For discussions, users can already use DiscussionTools in these namespaces.
• The tracking category "Pages using Timeline" has been renamed to "Pages using the EasyTimeline extension" in TranslateWiki. Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local creation to match.

Project updates

• Editors who help to organize WikiProjects and similar on-wiki collaborations, are invited to share ideas and examples of successful collaborations with the Campaigns and Programs teams. You can fill out a brief survey or share your thoughts on the talkpage. The teams are particularly looking for details about successful collaborations on non-English wikis.
• The new parser is being rolled out on Wikivoyage wikis over the next few months. The English Wikivoyage and Hebrew Wikivoyage were switched to Parsoid last week. For more information, see Parsoid/Parser Unification.

Learn more

• There will be more than 200 sessions at Wikimania this week. Here is a summary of some of the key sessions related to the product and technology area.
• The latest Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin is available.
• The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization newsletter is available. It includes: New design previews for Translatable pages; Updates about MinT for Wiki Readers; the release of Translation dumps; and more.
• The latest quarterly Growth newsletter is available.
• The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available.

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

MediaWiki message delivery 20:40, 5 August 2024 (UTC)

Question from Nathanshand94 (17:10, 8 August 2024)

Hello

How are you? how do I upload a photo to use ? --Nathanshand94 (talk) 17:10, 8 August 2024 (UTC)

Nathanshand94 Good day and thank you for the questions. Photo or images can ONLY be uploaded if you are the WP:copyright holder which means you are the one who took the photo. If not that you will be violate the copyright guidelines and pls note that Wikipedia take copyright violation very seriously as it entail legal issues. If you want to upload a photo, then pls read the Wikipedia:Uploading images and Wikipedia:Image use policy guidelines and instructions. Once you have done so, then yo can upload the photo on HERE at Wikipedia Common (follow the instructions) . Once you have successfully uploaded the photo then click "use this file" with a "W" icon next to it and copy the "thumnail" link and past it to the intended article at Wikipedia. I understand you are a model (as indicated in your user page), if you want to upload a photo of yourself and it is taken by your photographer, then your photographer (NOT you) need to upload the photo themselves and has to release his copyright holder right for EVERYONE to use the photo.

I saw you sandbox and I believe you want to you want to write about youself. Pls note that any subject (in this case is you) needs to pass the WP:GNG guidelines. (pls note that Wikipedia is an enclyopedia and not a social media platform). To have a mainspace in Wikipedia, the subject needs to have significant coverage from independent, reliable sources, such as form the MAJOR newspapers and books, whereby the sources talk about the subject in length and in-depth and not merely passing mention for verification. Pls note that all social medias (including Utube, X, blogs) , subject webpage, any sources that is associated, related, affiliated with the subjects are considered not independent or reliable which they can NOT be used to contribute to the GNG (notability) guidelines requested by Wikipedia. Pls read WP:Your first article for further info. Let me know if you need futher assistance as I am heere to help. Thank you and best. Cassiopeia talk 23:26, 8 August 2024 (UTC)

Question from Cscott (17:54, 8 August 2024)

Hi, Cassiopeia. I'm actually a staff member at the Wikimedia Foundation, working on the wikitext parser. But I really appreciate that you are helping folks as a mentor. If I can help /you/ with anything, let me know! --C. Scott Ananian (he/him) (talk) 17:54, 8 August 2024 (UTC)

Cscott Good day Dr. Ananian. Thank you very much for reaching out and offering your assistance. I genuinely appreciate it, as receiving such outreach is incredibly valuable. I am a little surprised how you found out about me as I am not a editor in MediaWiki (I wish I am one and currently learning about basic computer topic since I want to have a career change). I will accept your offer for a rain check and once again thank you. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 00:23, 9 August 2024 (UTC)