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Bare URL tags

These aren't very useful. The time spent doing this would be better spent using WP:REFILL to fix the problem rather than telling other people to do it. ♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 13:56, 16 August 2024 (UTC)

Ianmacm, I also manually fill out bare URLs, typically PDFs that can't be done with refill. It takes no time at all for me because I'm using a script. I think it's more helpful to have an accurate count of the number of bare URLs and to have them flagged in articles so editors know to fix them. — Qwerfjkltalk 14:04, 16 August 2024 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but your reply didn't make any sense at all. All you did was reword his statement of the problem you're creating, except you actually said you think it's inexplicably better to count problems than to fix them. In other words, WP:IDIDNTHEARTHAT. WP:SOFIXIT. Stop running a script to tag bare URLs instead of simply running the script that fixes them. Why on earth would anyone do that? That's a rhetorical question. I've lost track of how many times I'm seeing this happen, where somebody immediately just follows you with WP:REFILL like I just did.[1] I see you're one of those super cool bot makers, and I've seen another bot that can automate citation formatting, so can you just have a bot scan for bare urls and another try to fix them? Thank you very much. — Smuckola(talk) 20:00, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

Smuckola, the bot for fixing bare URLs is Citation bot (and it is limited in what it fixes). The problem with almost all automated means of filling out bare URLs is that they are inaccurate, often very badly, because they abuse metadata fields. PDFs typically can't be filled at all. So whilst I could run something like ReFill automatically, it would likely cause more problems than it fixed. This means that at best I can fill bare URLs semi-automatically, which is what I do - alongside tagging them, which is much easier to do. I've lost track of how many times I'm seeing this happen, where somebody immediately just follows you with WP:REFILL like I just did. That's the whole point, to draw attention to this issue. Qwerfjkltalk 09:54, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

Any way at least the tagging of bare URLs could be made by a bot? Right now you've been flooding watchlists for at least a few days. 1234qwer1234qwer4 14:42, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

Fixing bare URLs is a job and appreciated. Some possible old threads of interest, you may already know about:

• User_talk:BrownHairedGirl/Archive/Archive_067#Bare_URL_inline
• User_talk:BrownHairedGirl/Archive/Archive_068#Identification_of_articles_with_bare_URLs
• User_talk:BrownHairedGirl/Archive/Archive_069#How_do_you_tag_{{Bare_URL_PDF}}_with_AWB?_+_another_AWB_question
• User:BrownHairedGirl/BareURLinline.js

-- GreenC 20:25, 17 August 2024 (UTC)

If you are interested, take a look at Help:VisualEditor#Editing_references. Hope it helps. AmritR012 (talk) 17:41, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

1234qwer1234qwer4, well, I think at least part of the point of tagging is to draw attention to the issue. — Qwerfjkltalk 16:46, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #641

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 2024-08-26. Please help Translate.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship:
  • Gwanki - RfP scheduled to end after 26 August 2024 05:54 (UTC)
  • Putnik 2 - RfP scheduled to end after 27 August 2024 23:17 (UTC)
• Closed request for adminship: Both requests successful, welcome new admins: Mohammed Qays and Wüstenspringmaus!
• New requests for permissions/Bot: Leaderbot - Task/s: reminds users when their rights are to expire (see Phab:T370842)
• Closed request for permissions/Bot: Bot5958 1b - RfP successful!
• New request for comments:
  • Citations from Wikidata from Author: Palu
  • Audio Transcription (P9533) from Author: Yug. P9533 is described as transcription of the word/text being spoken in this file. Does this exclude other communications modalities?

Events

• "The Future of Wikidata Events" report by Wikimedia Deutschland is now available on Wikimedia Commons. This report provides valuable insights into the current state and future possibilities of Wikidata events. We encourage everyone to read the report and share their thoughts to help shape the future of our community events: Wikidata talk:Events#"The Future of Wikidata Events" Report Now Available on Wikimedia Commons.
• Wikidata's 12th Birthday is fast approaching. Do you need financial support to organize a birthday event? Here is some useful information about how to get funding: Wikidata:Twelfth Birthday/Run an event/Funding. The deadline to apply is September 1st.
• WikiLibCon25 The Wikimedia+Libraries International Convention 2025 takes place in Mexico City, Mexico between 15 - 17 January 2025 - Call for Scholarships (ends 31 August0 and Proposals (ends 15 September) are open. WikiLibCon25 brings together Wikimedians, Wikibrarians, information professionals, library workers and mission-aligned partners from around the globe to create a vivid community and promote cooperative projects in the Library & Wikimedia sphere.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Papers
  • What does it mean to be queer in Wikidata?: Practices of gender representation within a transnational online community. By B. Melis et al.
  • Diversity and bias in DBpedia and Wikidata as a challenge for text-analysis tools by B. Berendt et al. This paper explores how data sources can impact content analysis of their tool Diversity Searcher for analysing diversity in news media texts.
• Videos
  • (sw) Wikipedia vs Wikidata - Fjodor Eklund shows how wikidata works and how searches are visualized.
  • Wikimania Coolest Tool Award! 2024 - Wikidata had good representation with InteGraality and Wikidata Walkabout.
  • Qichwabase: Building Knowledge Graphs for Under-Resourced Languages Elwin Huaman discuses how Wikibase and Wikidata have helped create a KG to empower local communities and languages.
• Slides: Giving metabolites (and lipids) a chemical and biological context with open science. This talk discusses the role of open science in providing chemical and biological context for metabolites and lipids, highlighting open-source cheminformatics, open standards, and open data to facilitate linking knowledge across databases and publications, as well as describing chemical interactions in biological pathway databases. By Egon Willighagen.
• Notebooks
  • Olympic medals by group of countries 🥇🥈🥉: Using Wikidata and IOC data to compute the share of medals for a selected groups of countries
  • Unequal distribution of medals from the Summer Olympics

Tool of the week

• Wikidata distributed/#game=94 - Help adding missing information related to artists on BNU's catalog (Select the option that fits best).

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• New AI Project Manager to join Wikimedia Deutschland: We’re pleased to announce that a new AI project manager will be joining our team next week. Lydia and Jonathan (Director of Engineering) have been prototyping in this area and recently presented their work at the AI_dev summit (YouTube link). Our goal is to bring knowledge graphs and generative AI closer together, making AI more equitable, truthful, participatory, and open. More updates to come soon!

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • denomination (value of a currency or type of currency)
• Newest External identifiers: Illinois Center for the Book author ID, Slekt og Data grave ID, ‎FolkWiki ID, iasj article ID, 365scores football team ID, speedrun.com series ID, All Musicals lyrics ID, MobyGames critic ID, Polygon game ID, Madain Project ID, 365scores basketball player ID, FOLDOC ID, GameFAQs genre ID, Retromags game ID, Nomes e Voces ID, Altar of Gaming company ID, Altar of Gaming franchise ID, Altar of Gaming game ID, Altar of Gaming person ID, Ciel d'oc ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Larval host plant (Larval host plant - used only for insects - subclass of P1034)
  • board game designer (person(s) who devised and developed this game)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: ACUM IDs, DOS Game Modding Wiki article, Mapcarta, Encyclopedia of Brno History literature ID, WikiYeshiva article ID, Denkmalnummer des Archivs der Stadt Linz, GameSpot genre ID, VideoGameGeek genre ID, Identifiant Say Who, VIRIN, Tabletopia game ID, Board Game Arena ID, CNES identifier, BoardGaming.com game ID, Finnish Company Number

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Of the 15424 existing subway stations on Earth, 5726 of them are in People's Republic of China (Q148)
  • Map of tripoints known to Wikidata (source)
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • Sweden/Banks - All Swedish banks still in operation
  • Antiquity/Mythology - This WikiProject deals with everything connected to Greek mythology with an outlook on the traditional tales and divinities which came before and/or inspired it, like Ancient Egyptian mythology, Mesopotamian mythology (Sumerian, Akkadian and Babylonian) and Hittite mythology, as well as those of adjacent cultures and those influenced by the Greeks, most notably Roman mythology).
• Newest WikiProjects: Aotearoa Asian Artists - This project aims to improve the data available about Aotearoa Asian Artists - Asian diaspora artists from, living in, and connected to Aotearoa New Zealand.
• Newest database reports: Terminator: Articles with no interwikis in a given Wikipedia - Wikidata Items that lack a label, description, or article in a specific language.
• Showcase Items: Northern Transylvania Holocaust Memorial Museum - heritage site in Sălaj County, Romania

Development

• Not much happened this week. Many of the developers are still on vacation, and some are out sick.

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.
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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New pages patrol September 2024 Backlog drive

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Tech News: 2024-35

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

• Administrators can now test the temporary accounts feature on test2wiki. This was done to allow cross-wiki testing of temporary accounts, for when temporary accounts switch between projects. The feature was enabled on testwiki a few weeks ago. No further temporary account deployments are scheduled yet. Temporary Accounts is a project to create a new type of user account that replaces IP addresses of unregistered editors which are no longer made public. Please share your opinions and questions on the project talk page.
• Later this week, editors at wikis that use FlaggedRevs (also known as "Pending Changes") may notice that the indicators at the top of articles have changed. This change makes the system more consistent with the rest of the MediaWiki interface. [2]

Bugs status

• Editors who use the 2010 wikitext editor, and use the Character Insert buttons, will no longer experience problems with the buttons adding content into the edit-summary instead of the edit-window. You can read more about that, and 26 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Project updates

• Please review and vote on Focus Areas, which are groups of wishes that share a problem. Focus Areas were created for the newly reopened Community Wishlist, which is now open year-round for submissions. The first batch of focus areas are specific to moderator workflows, around welcoming newcomers, minimizing repetitive tasks, and prioritizing tasks. Once volunteers have reviewed and voted on focus areas, the Foundation will then review and select focus areas for prioritization.
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Learn more

• If you're curious about the product and technology improvements made by the Wikimedia Foundation last year, read this recent highlights summary on Diff.
• To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:
  • Community Configuration - Shaping On-Wiki Functionality Together (55 mins) - about the Community Configuration project.
  • Future of MediaWiki. A sustainable platform to support a collaborative user base and billions of page views (30 mins) - an overview for both technical and non technical audiences, covering some of the challenges and open questions, related to the platform evolution, stewardship and developer experiences research.

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Qwerfjkl (bot) – Haroldwinstanley

Page: Peter_Pan_&_Wendy

Diff: Special:Diff/1238452595

Apparently there is a titling issue on the page I edited which has allegedly caused referencing problems, but I can’t find what the problem is…

Comment/question:

Haroldwinstanley (talk) 19:40, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

Haroldwinstanley, you added

<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.taurusworldstuntawards.com/awards/winners-and-nominees-2024/#:~:text=Peter%20Pan%20%26%20Wendy,-Peter%20Pan%2C%20Wendy&text=The%20stunts%2C%20technical%20stunt%20rigging,actors%20to%20create%20the%20illusion.|accessdate=August 04, 2024}}</ref>

Which is missing |title=. — Qwerfjkltalk 10:33, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

Qwerfjkl (bot) – OpalYosutebito

Page: Favre-Leuba

Diff: Special:Diff/1241743868

Comment/question: the bot thought that I made a CS1 error (more specifically, a bare URL), but to my knowledge, the edit had no bare URLs...

OpalYosutebito (talk) 03:50, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

OpalYosutebito,

<ref name="watchgecko">{{cite web|url=https://www.watchgecko.com/blogs/magazine/a-watch-brand-that-has-been-conquering-frontiers-for-283-years|website=WatchGecko|last=Quinn|first=Jon}}</ref>

is missing |title=. — Qwerfjkltalk 10:34, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

Oh. I see now. I think I was just sleep deprived when I read the diff, lol - OpalYosutebito (talk) 11:34, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

Qwerfjkl (bot) – Vycl1994

Page: Trevor_Richards_(baseball)

Diff: Special:Diff/1242680250

Qwerfjkl states that there is a bare url in the diff, but I replaced one source with another, more reliable one. Neither the original source or the more reliable source were bare URLs Vycl1994 (talk) 05:50, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

Vycl1994 (talk) 05:50, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

Vycl1994, the new source is missing |title=, as was the old one. — Qwerfjkltalk 10:35, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

Bare URL; tool to convert to citation format?

I used to use Toolforge, but that has stopped working. Do you know a tool I could use? Many thanks for any thoughts Asto77 (talk) 13:24, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

Asto77, what do you mean by "Toolforge"? Toolforge hosts a variety of tools. — Qwerfjkltalk 15:09, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

This is the one I used to use; https://refill.toolforge.org/

Best wishes Asto77 (talk) 20:39, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

now at https://refill.toolforge.org/ng/. best wishes Asto77 (talk) 00:46, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

Question from Titan 762 (19:34, 30 August 2024)

Hey there! I'm Titan, I just created an account to edit a page on the USS Columbus Submarine since I saw some info missing. Should I include a source or anyhting for the ship's motto that I added or anything? Thanks. --Titan 762 (talk) 19:34, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

Titan 762, in general you should include the source for any information you add, and avoid adding original research. Where did you get the information from? — Qwerfjkltalk 20:12, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

I'm a Submariner aboard the USS Columbus. Our ship's motto is "All Seas Are Navigable," I just wanted to update the info on the page since I take pride in my ship! 68.10.203.197 (talk) 16:52, 31 August 2024 (UTC)

@Titan 762, that is a conflict of interest - see this section on how to disclose it. Do you have any external references for the motto? — Qwerfjkltalk 17:16, 31 August 2024 (UTC)

Yes, there are a couple of references online. Here's a link to one example: https://www.seaforces.org/usnships/ssn/SSN-762-USS-Columbus.htm Titan 762 (talk) 18:30, 31 August 2024 (UTC)

I apologize for making this a complicated issue, I would like to fix it if possible but am unsure of how to go about adding a COI statement and adding sources. Would you be willing to help me with that? Titan 762 (talk) 18:44, 31 August 2024 (UTC)

I've added that as a reference. See WP:DISCLOSE on how to disclose the COI - I can help if you have difficulty with it. — Qwerfjkltalk 09:13, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

Question from Adina2244 (22:55, 30 August 2024)

Hello. I need help and guidance for certain tasks. --Adina2244 (talk) 22:55, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

Adina2244, what tasks? — Qwerfjkltalk 09:42, 31 August 2024 (UTC)

Tasks like what images are considered eligible for upload on Wiki Commons? And if I dont have the license of certain images but have permission from the main profile, how do i justify the upload of that image? Adina2244 (talk) 20:14, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

@Adina2244, from Wikipedia:Uploading images:

::::Allowed copyright statuses include (in descending order of desirability):

• Public domain (expired copyright or public from inception) (see here)
• One of various licenses listed in this Wikipedia resource page. The only Creative Commons licenses allowed are CC BY-SA (BY = Attribution and SA = Share Alike) and CC BY (Attribution only). Creative Commons licenses such as CC BY-NC-ND (NC = No commercial use, ND = No derivations or adaptations) are not permitted as such licenses do not allow totally free, credited use.
• Claimed as fair use under Wikipedia's non-free content guidelines

If you are unsure of the image license, you can't upload it. Does this answer you questions? Qwerfjkltalk 08:39, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

MassCfDS.js summary includes an unneeded closing parenthesis

Could you please remove the unneeded closing parenthesis at line 913 of User:Qwerfjkl/scripts/massCFDS.js? It should say

                const categorySummary = `Tagging category for [[Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Speedy|speedy ${nominationType ? nominationType : 'nomination'}]]` + advSummary;

instead. GTrang (talk) 19:07, 31 August 2024 (UTC)

GTrang,  Done. — Qwerfjkltalk 09:06, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

Question from Domart2013 (05:26, 1 September 2024)

Hello how can I start? --Domart2013 (talk) 05:26, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

Domart2013, see Wikipedia:Task Center for a list of things you can do. — Qwerfjkltalk 09:15, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

Question from Kasalinamutebi (09:34, 1 September 2024)

I want to write about some one not to edit, how do I start --Kasalinamutebi (talk) 09:34, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

Welcome! Creating a new article from scratch is extremely challenging, and new editors are strongly recommended to spend a few months learning how Wikipedia works, by making improvements to some of our existing seven million articles before trying it. When you do decide to have a go at a new article, you are highly encouraged to read WP:Your first article. If you haven't already also check out WP:TUTORIAL; it's a lot of fun! Happy editing! — Qwerfjkltalk 09:45, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

Announcing the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee

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Hello all,

The scrutineers have finished reviewing the vote and the Elections Committee have certified the results for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) special election.

I am pleased to announce the following individual as regional members of the U4C, who will fulfill a term until 15 June 2026:

• North America (USA and Canada)
  • Ajraddatz

The following seats were not filled during this special election:

• Latin America and Caribbean
• Central and East Europe (CEE)
• Sub-Saharan Africa
• South Asia
• The four remaining Community-At-Large seats

Thank you again to everyone who participated in this process and much appreciation to the candidates for your leadership and dedication to the Wikimedia movement and community.

Over the next few weeks, the U4C will begin meeting and planning the 2024-25 year in supporting the implementation and review of the UCoC and Enforcement Guidelines. You can follow their work on Meta-Wiki.

On behalf of the U4C and the Elections Committee,

RamzyM (WMF) 14:05, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #643

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 2024-09-02.

Discussions

• Project chat: Wikidata:Project chat#Mass-import policy - A new mass-import policy has been proposed, focusing on improving the quality of existing items rather than importing new ones, with a suggested limit of 100 new items before requiring community approval.

Events

• Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session 3 September, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 3 September, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter). Christa Strickler will be our first Project Series lead with her joint project with the Wikidata Religion & Theology Community of Practice to contribute biographical data to Wikidata from the IRFA database using the Mix’n’Match tool. We are excited to learn more about this project, provide a forum for discussion and shared learning, and lend a hand while building new skills. Event page: Wikidata:WikiProject LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group/Affinity Group Calls/First Project Series
• (id) Registration is open for the Wikimedia Indonesia Research Grant 2024 program. Open until 30 September 2024. This program opens funding opportunities for research on topics related to Wikidata, Wikipedia, or other Wiki projects, and Linked Open Data.
• Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—September 4, 2024. Time: 15:00-16:00 UTC / 08:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CEST

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: (de) Wikibase4Research - Easily manage, share and visualize knowledge data, tailored for academic purposes, WB4R simplifies the installation and use of MedaWiki software. By Kolja Bailly.
• Papers
  • KGPrune: a Web Application to Extract Subgraphs of Interest from Wikidata with Analogical Pruning (see also Videos) - this web application when given seed entities of interest and properties to traverse, extracts neighboring subgraphs from Wikidata. By Pierre Monnin.
  • Project SHADOW: Symbolic Higher-order Associative Deductive reasoning On Wikidata using LM probing - A fine-tuned language model trained on an intermediate task using associative deductive reasoning. By Hanna Abi Akl.
  • Transforming higher education: a decade of integrating Wikipedia and Wikidata for literacy enhancement and social impact - Demonstrating the role of Wikipedia and Wikidata in fostering knowledge creation, digital and data literacies and critical thinking, in Open Edcuational resources. By S.E. Sigalov, A. Cohen & R. Nachmias.
• Videos
  • (es) Connect biodiversity to Wikimedia projects via iNaturalist? - Tiago Lubiana presents the inat2wiki platform (https://inat2wiki.toolforge.org/), designed to connect biodiversity observations to Commons and subsequently, to Wikipedia and Wikidata.
  • (es) Lecture on Knowledge Graphs & Workshop on Querying Data - Sebastián Ferrada presents this lecture at the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science 2023 including a SPARQL and Wikidata Query Service workshop.
  • Wiki4Education Technical Training - session 2 of the Wiki4Education training series held across 17 - 24 Aug 2024 in Uganda.
  • Introducing KGPrune - a web application to extract subgraphs of interest from Wikidata with analogical pruning by Pierre Monnin.
  • (ar) Intro to Wikidata at the Arabic Wikidata Days 2024, hosted by Houcemeddine Turki
  • (ar) 2: Wikidata for Wikipedians - this session of Arabic Wikidata Days 2024 shows the benefits of using Wikidata in Wikipedia.
• Notebooks: Drawing the network of Adventures of Tintin

Tool of the week

• Display Wikidata Info on sister projects by User:Yair rand. This user-script will add the articles corresponding Wikidata item Label, Q-ID, Description and Short Desc. neatly under the article title. If no Wikidata item is linked, option to CreateNewItem page on Wikidata is provided.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Call for Projects and Mentors for Outreachy Round 29 is open! The deadline to submit projects on the Outreachy website is September 11, 2024 at 4pm UTC and the project list will be finalized by September 18, 2024.
• QuickStatements Community Consultation. Wiki Movimento Brazil as part of the Software Collaboration for Wikidata are conducting interviews to build upon the QuickStatements tool. If you're interested in helping refine the tool then get in touch with them.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • denomination (value of a currency or type of currency)
  • exponent of base unit (a qualifier of derived from base unit (P12571) used to describe the exponent of the unit)
• Newest External identifiers: Illinois Center for the Book author ID, Slekt og Data grave ID, ‎FolkWiki ID, iasj article ID, 365scores football team ID, speedrun.com series ID, All Musicals lyrics ID, MobyGames critic ID, Polygon game ID, Madain Project ID, 365scores basketball player ID, FOLDOC ID, GameFAQs genre ID, Retromags game ID, Nomes e Voces ID, Altar of Gaming company ID, Altar of Gaming franchise ID, Altar of Gaming game ID, Altar of Gaming person ID, Ciel d'oc ID, VideoGameGeek genre ID, GameSpot genre ID, FranceTerme identifier, DOS Game Modding Wiki article ID, monument ID in the archive of Linz
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Larval host plant (Larval host plant - used only for insects - subclass of P1034)
  • board game designer (person(s) who devised and developed this game)
  • has reading (phonetic reading or pronunciation of the sinogram)
  • agent of action & agent class of action & agents of action have role (particular item that initiates this action or class of actions)
  • formula weight (molar mass of an empirical forumula unit of a chemical compound, element or isotope)
  • mode of reproduction (ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings)
  • initialism (abbreviation containing only first letters of an expression (regardless if pronounced as letters or as a word))
  • Handwriting example (Sample image of the person's handwriting.)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: ACUM IDs, Mapcarta, Encyclopedia of Brno History literature ID, WikiYeshiva article ID, Identifiant Say Who, VIRIN, Tabletopia game ID, Board Game Arena ID, CNES identifier, BoardGaming.com game ID, Finnish Company Number, case id (mainland China), Identifiant dans l'annuaire de l'École des chartes, Trakt episode ID, The Indian Express Topic ID, NWIS site ID, Hindustan Times Topic ID, Lexikon der Mathematik entry ID, Biblioteka Nauki IDs, TV Maze character ID, identifiant Prosocour d'une personne, Stadtwiki Karlsruhe ID, culture.ru organization ID, 365scores basketball team ID, identifiant Encyclopédie des femmes tunisiennes

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Template:LangSwitch
  • What Wikidata album languages grew the most this week? (source)
• Newest database reports: Sitelinks to Wiktionary - List of Items with links to Wiktionary main space.
• Showcase Items: Wikimedia disambiguation page (Q4167410): type of wiki page usually in main namespace (article namespace, ns=0) containing links to articles with similar names, and very little details only, use with P31 "instance of" (2024-09-02)
• Showcase Lexemes: থোড়া (L345714): Bengali verb thôṛa in English imply something that is “chopped” or “minced”

Development

• Wikidata Query Service:
  • The WMF Search Platform team is putting the finishing touches on the new Query Service servers that contain the two parts of the split graph.
  • We are analyzing which percentage of current queries are better served by other systems like the REST API or search.
• Wikimedia projects integration:
  • We have worked on moving the Wikidata Item link out of the toolbox section of the sidebar of an article. It has been rolled out to the first wikis: ukwiki, hewiki, fawiki (phab:T66315)
  • We are working on decreasing the amount of irrelevant changes from Wikidata in the watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and co by correcting the tracking behaviour of the Lua function mw.wikibase.entity:getSitelink() (phab:T295356)
• Wikibase REST API: We continued improving errors and error messages.

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: Ghana
• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Help translate · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) (talk) 13:10, 26 August 2024 (UTC) · MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:01, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Question from Jglennthepunisher (17:58, 2 September 2024)

Hello, I am trying to create a new page for an up and coming local artist. Where do I begin? --Jglennthepunisher (talk) 17:58, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

First of all, check that the artist passes WP:NARTIST. If they don't, they probably shouldn't have a Wikipedia article (unless they alternatively pass WP:GNG). — Qwerfjkltalk 18:00, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2024).

Administrator changes

Pppery

Interface administrator changes

Pppery

Oversighter changes

Wugapodes

CheckUser changes

• Courcelles
• GeneralNotability

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, there is a new criterion for speedy deletion: C4, which applies to unused maintenance categories, such as empty dated maintenance categories for dates in the past.
• A request for comment is open to discuss whether Notability (species) should be adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline.

Arbitration

• Following a motion, remedies 5.1 and 5.2 of World War II and the history of Jews in Poland (the topic and interaction bans on My very best wishes, respectively) were repealed.
• Remedy 3C of the German war effort case ("Cinderella157 German history topic ban") was suspended for a period of six months.
• The arbitration case Historical Elections is currently open. Proposed decision is expected by 3 September 2024 for this case.

Miscellaneous

• Editors can now enter into good article review circles, an alternative for informal quid pro quo arrangements, to have a GAN reviewed in return for reviewing a different editor's nomination.
• A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in September 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles and redirects in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 13,900 articles and 26,200 redirects awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!

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Tech News: 2024-36

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

Weekly highlight

• Editors and volunteer developers interested in data visualisation can now test the new software for charts. Its early version is available on beta Commons and beta Wikipedia. This is an important milestone before making charts available on regular wikis. You can read more about this project update and help to test the charts.

Feature news

• Editors who use the Special:UnusedTemplates page can now filter out pages which are expected to be there permanently, such as sandboxes, test-cases, and templates that are always substituted. Editors can add the new magic word __EXPECTUNUSEDTEMPLATE__ to a template page to hide it from the listing. Thanks to Sophivorus and DannyS712 for these improvements. [3]
• Editors who use the New Topic tool on discussion pages, will now be reminded to add a section header, which should help reduce the quantity of newcomers who add sections without a header. You can read more about that, and 28 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
• Last week, some Toolforge tools had occasional connection problems. The cause is still being investigated, but the problems have been resolved for now. [4]
• Translation administrators at multilingual wikis, when editing multiple translation units, can now easily mark which changes require updates to the translation. This is possible with the new dropdown menu.

Project updates

• A new draft text of a policy discussing the use of Wikimedia's APIs has been published on Meta-Wiki. The draft text does not reflect a change in policy around the APIs; instead, it is an attempt to codify existing API rules. Comments, questions, and suggestions are welcome on the proposed update’s talk page until September 13 or until those discussions have concluded.

Learn more

• To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:
  • Charts, the successor of Graphs - A secure and extensible tool for data visualization (25 mins) – about the above-mentioned Charts project.
  • State of Language Technology and Onboarding at Wikimedia (90 mins) – about some of the language tools that support Wikimedia sites, such as Content/Section Translation, MinT, and LanguageConverter; also the current state and future of languages onboarding. [5]

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Hi Qwerfjkl, we are gradually migrating all the |listas= parameters from WikiProject banners into the banner shell. Is this something your bot might be able to help with? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 07:44, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

Martin, sure, that doesn't sound too hard to do. — Qwerfjkltalk 15:01, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

Question from Jeevan prakash N (08:02, 4 September 2024)

Hi I am Jeevan Prakash N kannada film editor more than 25 movies in kannada film 2 Tamil movie 1 telugu movies I work --Jeevan prakash N (talk) 08:02, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

You cannot write an article about yourself. — Qwerfjkltalk 15:02, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

The Signpost: 4 September 2024

• News and notes: WikiCup enters final round, MCDC wraps up activities, 17-year-old hoax article unmasked

• In the media: AI is not playing games anymore. Is Wikipedia ready?

• Recent research: Simulated Wikipedia seen as less credible than ChatGPT and Alexa in experiment

• News from the WMF: Meet the 12 candidates running in the WMF Board of Trustees election

• Wikimania: A month after Wikimania 2024

• Serendipity: What it's like to be Wikimedian of the Year

• Traffic report: After the gold rush

• Humour: Local man halfway through rude reply no longer able to recall why he hates other editor

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Var nowiki

Template:Var nowiki has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. – BrandonXLF (talk) 05:40, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

Question from Asiabeka (11:07, 6 September 2024)

Do I get to publish my own information or I will only have to do edits --Asiabeka (talk) 11:07, 6 September 2024 (UTC)

Asiabeka, are you referring to writing an article about yourself, and if so, is there an existing article? — Qwerfjkltalk 12:40, 6 September 2024 (UTC)