Overleg gebruiker:Romaine

Welkom op deze overlegpagina!! Als je met me wilt overleggen, dan is dit daar de plaats voor. Ook als je vragen wilt stellen kun je dat hier doen en help ik je graag. Beantwoord mijn vragen/reactie op de plek waar ik ze gesteld heb. Hier gestelde vragen worden hier beantwoord. Voeg nieuwe vragen en opmerkingen onderaan deze pagina toe. Onderteken je bijdragen met: ~~~~ Vaker gestelde vragen: Waarom staan er weespagina's vermeld op de dp-pagina's in jouw naamruimte? - zie hier het antwoord - Kernpunten voor op wikipedia: Ga uit van goede wil. Blijf positief en neutraal in bewoording. Samen maken we de encyclopedie. Let op: deze gebruiker is vaak direct, maar bedoelt het goed! Welcome on my talkpage!!! If you want to talk with me, this is the place for it. Also if you have questions, you can ask them here, I gladly help you. Please mention the wiki you are referring to. If possible, please add a link to the page you are referring to. Please sign your message with: ~~~~    (4x ~) or add a link to your username on an other wiki and sign with: ~~~~~    (5x ~ to get date and time) Languages: Languages I am able to understand are Dutch (nl), English (en), German/Deutsch (de), and other languages which are similar to these (most Germanic and Romance languages/dialects). But I will answer in Dutch or English, and sometimes German. On other wiki projects I use the username Romaine too, and in the past also NL-Romaine. Klik hier als je mij wilt schrijven of een vraag hebt (kopje toevoegen) Click here if you want to write me or ask a question

nl Deze gebruiker heeft het Nederlands als moedertaal. en 3 This user is able to contribute with an advanced level of English. de 2 Dieser Benutzer hat fortgeschrittene Deutschkenntnisse. Archiefoverzicht Archief t/m 2007 2008 + 2009 + 2010 2011 + 2012 + 2013 2014 + 2015 + 2016 2017 + 2018 + 2019

Automatische categorie-indeling Wikivoyage

Over Wikivoyage. Naar voorbeeld van de Duitse Wikivoyage heb ik het sjabloon {{IsIn}} aangepast, waardoor alle artikelen nu automatisch bij een categorie ingedeeld worden. Er is alleen één heel klein probleempje: we zitten daardoor nu wel met misschien wel duizenden dode 'categorielinks', die nog niet op elkaar aansluiten ook! Kun je er misschien even een bot op loslaten, zodat de categorieën automatisch worden aangemaakt en ook op elkaar aangesloten worden (met ondercategorieën enzovoort)? Bedankt! Ischa1 (overleg) 30 jul 2013 12:07 (CEST)

Hallo Ischa1, Dat zal dat wel volledig uitgevoerd moeten gaan worden, het kan op zich wel. Ik zal eens kijken hoe dat handig kan gebeuren. Groetjes - ※ Romaine 30 jul 2013 15:44 (CEST)

Navigatiesjablonen

Hoi Romaine,

Ik hoop dat je nu iets meer tijd en/of zin heb om naar de mogelijkheid van extra groepen in navigatiesjablonen te kijken. Als dat niet zo is, laat dan even weten, het heeft nog steeds geen haast. Om een en ander er goed uit te laten zien zou de tekst links moeten uitlijnen en moet er op de een of andere manier in de achtergrond onderscheid gemaakt worden tussen de categorieën en de inhoud. en:Template:Navbox subgroup is een voorbeeld, maar zo hoeft het natuurlijk niet exact te worden. Nogmaals, uit eindelijk zou ik er zelf ook wel achter kunnen komen hoe zoiets in elkaar te zetten, maar geen idee of de achterliggende code dan nog behoorlijk werkt. Zeker omdat ons Sjabloon:Navigatie/Tabel niet met wikitabellen maar met <tr> werkt. Met vriendelijke groeten, Sir Iain _overleg 3 dec 2013 16:19 (CET)

Hoi Romaine,

Heeft het nog een betekenis dat deze vraag nu in het geel staat? :)

Heb je hier nog tijd voor en zin in? Groeten, Sir Iain _overleg 5 jan 2014 18:40 (CET)

Hallo Sir Iain, Het geel houdt voor mij in dat het in de wachtkamer staat en hoort bij een eerdere archiefperiode dan de huidige. Tevens houdt het het in dat ik er nog naar moet kijken en inhoudelijk diepgaander op reageren. Mijn uitgangspunt is er om er deze maand naar te kijken, maar niet vandaag als laatste dag van de erg succesvolle dubbele schrijfweek over Zweden. Groetjes - ※ Romaine 5 jan 2014 18:47 (CET)

Ah, OK!

Die schrijfweek Zweden is trouwens een heel mooi project geworden! Sir Iain _overleg 5 jan 2014 18:52 (CET)

Hoi Romaine,

Zou je nog eens een blik kunnen werpen op dit probleem? Groeten, Sir Iain _overleg 28 mrt 2014 15:48 (CET)

Hoi Romaine,

Staat dit punt nog op je to-do-list? Een uitgebreider navigatie-sjabloon zou mij en hopelijk de lezer echt kunnen helpen om een onderwerp op een geordende manier navigeernaar te maken. Groeten, Sir Iain _overleg 13 jul 2014 14:18 (CEST)

afronding Sjabloon:Coor title dms

Hoi Romaine, De afronding van Sjabloon:Coor title dms gaat nog niet helemaal goed. Wanneer er bijvoorbeeld 120|59|54 wordt opgegeven wordt dit getoond als 120° 60′, maar dit moet dan natuurlijk 121° 0′ worden. Kan je dit misschien nog een keertje doorvoeren? Alvast bedankt. Groeten Magalhães (overleg) 31 mei 2014 09:37 (CEST)

Browser-afhankelijk probleem Wikivoyage pagebanner

Hallo Romaine,

Allereerst een fijne kerst en de beste wensen voor het nieuwe jaar toegewenst.

Maar nu even een Wiki-probleempje. Sedert enige dagen verschijnt de TOC in een pagebanner onder elkaar en niet naast elkaar in:

• Chrome op mijn laptop
• in mijn standaard Android 5.0 browser (na de keuze voor desktopweergave)

maar gaat het wel goed in IE en FF. Aan sjabloon:pagebanner is al maanden niets gewijzigd.

Weet jij ook waar dat wordt geregeld en wie daar nu mee aan het werk is? Ik heb het een paar dagen aangezien, met het idee dat het "werk in uitvoering" daarna wel zou zijn afgerond. Maar dat is dus kennelijk als afgerond beschouwd, maar wel met de introductie van deze browser-afhankelijke fout. FredTC (overleg) 25 dec 2015 03:57 (CET)

Vandaag bemerkte ik een nieuw TOC-probleem: in IE komt de TOC slechts even in beeld en is dan weer verdwenen. In FF gaat het (nog) wel goed. Chrome is onveranderd. FredTC (overleg) 1 feb 2016 03:30 (CET)

Hallo Romaine, het probleem doet zich nog steeds voor. Had jij dit nog ergens aangekaart? FredTC (overleg) 4 mrt 2016 15:49 (CET)

Datumparameters bij samenvoegsjablonen

Zie deze discussie. Was je al van plan om de genoemde wijzigingen door te voeren? Ik heb sjabloon:samenvoegen en sjabloon:samenvoegennaar al aangepast, voor die twee zou je je bot al kunnen inschakelen. --BDijkstra (overleg) 4 apr 2016 12:18 (CEST)

Sjablonen R- en S-zinnen overbodig

Beste Romaine, ik heb begrepen dat jij functioneert als een expert op het vlak van sjablonen. Ikzelf ben de laatste dagen bezig geweest met alle artikelen over chemische stoffen waarop nog oude R- en S-zinnen stonden aan te passen naar de nieuwe verplichte GHS-regelgeving (de zogeheten H- en P-zinnen). Dat betekent dat er (als ik alles goed heb overlopen) nu geen enkele verwijziging meer is naar de sjablonen van R- en S-zinnen. Is het nuttig om al die sjablonen (met name in Categorie:Wikipedia:Sjablonen R-zinnen en Categorie:Wikipedia:Sjablonen S-zinnen) te verwijderen? Alleszins zou moeten duidelijk gemaakt worden dat deze sjablonen niet meer mogen gebruikt worden en dat enkel nog de sjablonen betreffende H- en P-zinnen mogen gebruikt worden. Kan jij jouw licht hierop laten schijnen, aub? Alvast dank. — Mileau (overleg) 23 dec 2018 09:28 (CET)

Daarnaast bedacht ik dat ook de parameters in het Sjabloon:Infobox chemische stof zouden moeten aangepast worden, en wel als volgt:

• | Rzinnen = naar | Hzinnen =
• | Szinnen = naar | Pzinnen =

Zou jij dit kunnen aanpassen in de broncode, alsook (geautomatiseerd met AWB allicht) in alle artikelen die dit sjabloon dragen? Bedankt! — Mileau (overleg) 23 dec 2018 09:40 (CET)

Hallo Mileau, Daar wil ik op een later moment wel naar kijken. Als de sjablonen met R-zinnen en S-zinnen niet meer gebruikt worden, kunnen ze inderdaad allemaal genomineerd worden ter verwijdering. Ik ga er in 2019 naar kijken. Fijne dagen! Groetjes - Romaine (overleg) 25 dec 2018 15:40 (CET)

Dat is fijn om te horen, Romaine. Bedankt en ook voor u een prettig eindejaar gewenst. Beste groeten — Mileau (overleg) 25 dec 2018 17:08 (CET)

Beste Romaine, ik weet niet of u dit uit het oog bent verloren (ik veronderstel van niet, aangezien u het hier bovenaan uw overlegpagina bewaart), maar zou u hier enige actie in kunnen ondernemen? Als ik hulp of advies kan geven, laat gerust weten. Vriendelijke groeten — Mileau (overleg) 9 mei 2019 14:06 (CEST)

Ik zie dat de R/S-sjablonen alleen nog worden gebruikt op Wikipedia:Laboratorium/archief01 en Wikipedia:Wikiproject/Scheikundige Elementen/ICSC. Zijn die pagina's expres overgeslagen? –bdijkstra (overleg) 9 mei 2019 14:28 (CEST)

In principe zouden de sjablonen daar ook weg mogen gehaald worden, maar ik veronderstel dat ze behouden zullen worden mits archivering. Op de gewone artikelen zouden normaal gezien geen R/S-sjablonen meer mogen gebruikt worden. — Mileau (overleg) 9 mei 2019 15:10 (CEST)

Interssante link

Handige link voor query: link - 193.191.4.205 16 apr 2019 14:24 (CEST)

Complexe sportif de Blocry

Dag Romaine !

Ik heb gisteren 16 april fotos gezet op Wikimedia en op de franstalige Wikipedia van stripverhaal panelen die de gangen vand het sportcentrum van Louvain-la-Neuve (Complexe sportif de Blocry) versieren. Deze talrijke panelen vormen eigenlijk een "Musée du Sport et de la B.D.".

Maar gebruiker Defeder objecteert dat er copyrights zijn op deze illustraties. Kan je mij zeggen of deze foto's toegelaten zijn of niet door de wet van 27 juni 2016 ? Ik vrees inderdaad van niet want het gebouw is wel een "openbare plaats", maar het is 's nachts gesloten.

In afwachting van uw antwoord heb ik ze momenteel weggehaald van de pagina "Complexe sportif de Blocry" behalve twee, waarvoor ik een bijkomende vraag heb : wat als de tekening geïntegreerd is in een echte "enscenering", zoals de twee nissen die het duiken (Kuifje) en het springen te paard (De Blauwbloezen) illustreren?

Alvast bedankt,

EmDee (overleg) 17 apr 2019 19:33 (CEST)

Hoi EmDee, ik ben welliswaar niet Romaine, maar las dit mee. De wet waar je het over had is wat bekend is onder freedom of panorama. Voor Belgie staat dat beschreven op commons:Commons:Copyright rules by territory/Belgium#Freedom of panorama. Algemene informatie vind je op commons:Commons:Freedom_of_panorama. Zoals ik het begrijp geld in Belgie FOP alleen buiten, en dus niet in een gebouw. Hopelijk heb je hier iets aan. Akoopal _overleg 18 apr 2019 22:25 (CEST)

Commons:Copyright rules by territory/Belgium section Freedom of panorama zegt « An explanation that was attached to a draft version of the freedom of panorama provision stated that the provision was intended to apply to locations that are permanently accessible to the public, such as public streets and squares, and that the provision was not intended to apply inside of public museums or other buildings that are not permanently open to the public ». Maar dit was alleen attached to a draft. Is dit dan echt de wet ? EmDee (overleg) 19 apr 2019 13:26 (CEST)

Het is beter om voor uzelf een regel aan te houden: buiten mag, binnen alleen met toestemming. Dit geldt voor uzelf overal, ook bij openbare gebouwen zoals stations, ziekenhuizen, etc. Sowieso is er voor schilderijen altijd toestemming nodig van de eigenaar en soms ook van de kunstenaar (of nabestaanden). Dqfn13 (overleg) 19 apr 2019 13:33 (CEST)

De openbare ruimte is niet beperkt tot plaatsen die altijd toegankelijk zijn. En ook straten kunnen afgesloten worden. Een openbare ruimte is niet alleen een straat of een plein, maar ook een winkelcentrum, een treinstation, een metrostation, een pretpark, enz.

Maar een school, een sportzaal, enz., ik weet het niet 100% zeker, maar ik denk dat het geen openbare ruimte is.

Indien het geen openbare ruimte is, mogen er alleen foto's geüpload worden die niet een duidelijk creatief werk zijn. Een kunstwerk is dan niet oké, sportende sporters is qua panoramavrijheid niet een probleem. Romaine (overleg) 19 apr 2019 22:24 (CEST)

Basiliek van Onze-Lieve-Vrouw van Goede Bijstand

Hoi Romaine,

je artikel wordt genoemd in de kroeg.

Met vriendelijke groet, Taketa (overleg) 19 apr 2019 15:47 (CEST)

verwijderen bestand op commons

Beste Romaine, Ik heb de volgende foto geplaatst op commons. File:Cigar tin. Schimmelpenninck.jpg Bij nader inzien moet deze misschien verwijderd worden omdat de betreffende fabriek pas in 2001 stopte in Wageningen. Dit volgens maartenonline.nl Overigens staan er in de Category:Schimmelpenninck (cigars) meer van dit merk. MvgAgaath (overleg) 20 apr 2019 22:05 (CEST)

Hallo Agaath, Op Commons ben ik door de jaren heen tal van objecten tegengekomen die klaarblijkelijk gewoon konden blijven bestaan op Commons. Bv auto's, ook die zijn naar ontwerp gebouwd. En zo zijn er vele andere roerende objecten die ook op Commons kunnen blijven staan. Ik ben van mening dat een Commons admin alleen met kennis van zaken dient te handelen, bv verwijderen, en aangezien ik meen dat ik over het onderwerp van roerende zaken te weinig kennis van zaken heb, kan ik niet hier een overtuigende actie ondernemen en laat ik dat graag aan anderen over. Ik vermoed dat de foto echter kan blijven bestaan gezien het een eigen foto is, hier sprake is van een 3D-object, gefotografeerd in de toestand zoals het zich bevindt en bovendien een verpakking is. Groetjes - Romaine (overleg) 27 apr 2019 01:55 (CEST)

Dank je wel voor de info Agaath (overleg) 27 apr 2019 23:00 (CEST)

Tech News: 2019-17

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This Month in Education: April 2019

This Month in Education Volume 8 • Issue 4 • April 2019 Contents • Headlines • Subscribe In This Issue Launch of the Wikimedia & Education Greenhouse! Wikipedia Student Scholar Wikimedia Commons: a highly hostile place for multimedia students contributions Wikimedia+Education Conference highlights

About This Month in Education · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · For the team: Romaine 24 apr 2019 03:27 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #361

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

• Events
  • Past: Editathon Where iNaturalist meets Wiki, on April 16th in Meise, Belgium
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Argentina, April 25th
  • Upcoming; Wikidata workshop in Pardubice, Czech Republic

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Association of Research Libraries White Paper on Wikidata: Opportunities and Recommendations
  • Open-sourcing PyTorch-BigGraph for faster embeddings of extremely large graphs and the example of Wikidata, on AI Facebook blog
  • OpenTapioca: Lightweight Entity Linking for Wikidata (paper by Antonin Delpeuch)
  • Update on the Factgrid project with Wikibase and GND by Olaf Simons

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Plenty of documentation pages have been translated into Spanish: Wikidata in one page, Query Service in one page, a new data model example based on Marie Curie, and the flyer "Wikidata for developers". Thanks a lot to Mlemusrojas and the Wikidata group in Argentina!
  • Depicts statements were due to arrive on Commons on April 23rd
  • The Wikimedia URL Shortener is live and now included in the Query Service to create short links to queries or direct results (announcement)
  • Reminder: the application phase for the WikidataCon is open until April 29th: if you want to attend to the conference, don't forget to participate!
  • Wikidata Sign Languages Browser
  • You can help by training ORES, the machine learning system, to better judge if edits are good or bad. We need another 7000 edits judged

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: number of sentences, Football Money League rank
    • External identifiers: National Wrestling Hall of Fame wrestler ID, MassBank Accession ID, CNV-SP ID, GruCultura ID, CEMDP ID, NGMDb Prod ID, MESH Concept ID, PRELIB organization ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: supported metadata, expansion, CatholicSaints.info ID, Musixmatch track ID, transfer speed, KeyWiki page ID, художник-мультипликатор, Number of polling stations, music video
    • External identifiers: The Atlas of African Frogs, Ming Qing Archive authority ID, Kinosozvezdie biography ID, RGALI ID, Referee.ru person ID, NSW Capital Conviction ID, Australian War Memorial ID, Flora of Australia (new) ID, Drobné památky ID, Identifiant IndieDB for video game, Whitney Museum of American Art ID, Archaeology Data Service person ID, CanLII ID, Justia Patents assignee ID, interwiki, Identifiant Mod DB for video game, OBIS ID, Alvin, FemBio ID
  • Query examples:
    • All deaths in Game of Thrones (source)
    • Wikidata knows of at least 5263 buildings started before Notre Dame de Paris (query based on this discussion)
    • Timeline for the History of Telecommunications (source)
    • Graph of London Tube stations that are on at least three lines (source)
    • Map of churches in Sri Lanka (source)

• Development
  • Improved the external identifiers landscape (phab:T204440)
  • Prepare process and announcement for the wb_terms migration to come
  • Allow configuring WDQS UI without changes to files under version control (phab:T194179)
  • Configure suggestion constraint level on Beta (phab:T221107)
  • Graduate suggestions based on constraints beta feature out of beta features (phab:T209879)
  • Editing of labels and descriptions on mobile (phab:T216987)
  • Editing aliases on mobile (phab:T218690)

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• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • 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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Nieuwsbrief 81 Wikimedia Nederland

Nieuwsbrief van april Zien wij elkaar in mei? Waarom ik schrijf voor WikiWoordenboek Reminder: Kennisbijeenkomst samenwerking tussen Wikimedia en bibliotheken in Nederland Zeeland Introductieworkshop Wikidata Creative Commons Global Summit Wiki goes Caribbean Projectleider gezocht Algemene Ledenvergadering Zien we jou in mei? Oude versies vindt u hier

Info over nieuwsbrief · Inschrijven/Uitschrijven · Global message delivery · MediaWiki message delivery (overleg) 25 apr 2019 10:17 (CEST)

Publicatie door hernoeming kladblok

Ik zag dat je tegenwoordig "Gepubliceerd: [[artikellink]]" zet in kladblok-redirects die zijn overgebleven na hernoeming. Als de gebruiker nu het kladblok weer wil gebruiken voor een nieuw artikel, zullen er in de geschiedenis van het toekomstige door hernoeming gepubliceerde artikel twee ongerelateerde acties staan. Dat vind ik niet zo netjes; ze kunnen beter worden verwijderd zodat er vanaf een schone lei kan worden begonnen. Zou je er voortaan {{nuweg}} op willen plakken? –bdijkstra (overleg) 26 apr 2019 13:03 (CEST)

Hi bdijkstra, Deze studenten van de Erasmushogeschool die ik uitleg heb gegeven over het schrijven op Wikipedia en hen begeleid in het schrijven. De kans dat deze studenten opnieuw een artikel gaan schrijven acht ik vrij klein, als deze studenten dat gaan doen zal dat op z'n vroegst pas in de volgende periode zijn.

Er zijn op zich drie mogelijke manieren om om te gaan met het publiceren van artikelen van studenten: 1. De redirect laten staan. 2. Linken naar het artikel. 3. De achtergebleven kladblokpagina nuweggen. Optie 1 heeft in het verleden laten zien dat ze naar hun kladblokpagina gingen en vervolgens in het artikel een nieuw artikel gingen schrijven omdat ze niet doorhadden dat de redirect ze automatisch had doorverwezen. Optie 3 heeft regelmatig tot de vraag geleid waar het artikel gebleven is en ze het artikel kwijt waren. Evenals de docenten die aangegeven hebben het artikel niet te kunnen vinden. Voor mij is overduidelijk waar dingen te vinden zijn, voor studenten en docenten is dat niet het geval. Daarom hou ik optie 2 aan als methode bij het publiceren van artikelen van studenten, zeker in de beoordelingsperiode. Dat neemt niet weg dat na enige weken de lege kladpagina's weg zouden kunnen per nuweg. Groetjes - Romaine (overleg) 27 apr 2019 01:47 (CEST)

Je zou optie 3 kunnen combineren met een bericht op de overlegpagina. Dan krijgen ze een melding en hebben ze altijd een (tekstuele) plek om te kijken wanneer het gepubliceerd is en waarheen. Is dat wat? –bdijkstra (overleg) 27 apr 2019 09:30 (CEST)

Dat is niet echt een optie want ook al heb ik tijdens de introductie de deelnemers er op gewezen, ze zien vaak niet eens dat ze bericht hebben, ook al staat het oranje/rood bovenaan. Optie 3 vind ik niet erg, mits er gewacht wordt totdat de schoolperiode afgelopen is. Op die manier blijven de pagina's voor de docenten en studenten goed vindbaar, en als een student nog een keer een artikel schrijft, is dat pas in een later academisch/schooljaar. Groetjes - Romaine (overleg) 29 mei 2019 09:26 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #362

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: BRPever

• Events
  • Past: WikiNusantara 2019, the first Wikimedia Indonesia conference was successfully held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, on Apr 27-28, 2019. The conference included two Wikidata talks:
    • Wikidata I: Intro to Wikidata by Raisha Abdillah from WMID
    • Wikidata II: Advancements for Wikidata by Adila Krisnadhi, Ph.D. and Dr. Fariz Darari from Faculty of Computer Science, Universitas Indonesia
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in London on May 2nd
  • Upcoming: Ghent University Wikidata and Wikibase Workshop, 3 - 5 July 2019

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Wikidata is mentioned in Mozilla's Internet Health report

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Breaking change - Important for Wikidata tools maintainers: wb_terms table to be dropped at the end of May
  • The ability to add structured depicts (P180) statements to file pages is live on Commons.
  • Suggestions based on the on-of constraints are now enabled for all users
  • New tool: Wikimedia Related Projects provides statistics about Wikimedia projects and the relations between them, using the number of sitelinks they have in common

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: approach angle, departure angle, Løøv classification, linear reference, data transfer speed
    • External identifiers: Japan Search name ID, Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG cards ID, Saxony protected area ID, Referee.ru person ID, Shanghai Library person ID, Shanghai Library place ID, FrogMAP ID, Ming Qing Archive ID, De Agostini ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: specifying descriptor, SciGraph IDs, era name, moved by, seconded by, debated by, Commons quality assessment, National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities code, OBO Gazetteer ID
    • External identifiers: FemBio ID, BlackPast.org ID, CineChile filmmaker ID, grwar.ru person ID, Whitney Museum of American Art artwork ID, Arabic Ontology ID
  • Query examples:
    • A map of the Rio de Janeiro light rail network
    • Nigerian women with Wikipedia article and pictures (source)
    • Map of places of residence for accused witches with a layer for occupations (source)
    • Map of Wikidata items that are dedicated to, named after or depict etc, St George. (source)
    • Partigiani color-coded by year of death (source)

• Development
  • Displaying mapframes for geocoordinate on client requires preprocessing by the user (phab:T220122)
  • Fixing cursor jumping to next field and overlapping of menus (phab:T172937)
  • Wikidata a focus issue on grammatical features field (phab:T218229)
  • Add language codes rm-rumgr, rm-sursilv, rm-surmiran, rm-sutsilv, rm-vallader, rm-puter for Lexemes (phab:T210293)
  • Align RTL languages in glosses to right (phab:T203081)
  • Add new monolingual codes: qya + sjn, el-cy, syc, abq, hbo) (phab:)
  • Fix a bug with NewLexeme suggester menu (phab:T199409)
  • Created a dedicated Phab board to help tool builders with the changes on wb_terms
  • More internal work to get the first version of mobile termbox ready for deployment

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• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • 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: 2019-18

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

• The Wikipedia app for Android now invites users to add Wikidata descriptions to Wikidata objects that have Wikipedia articles but no Wikidata descriptions. It will only invite users who have added a number of Wikidata descriptions in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. [7][8]

Problems

• Tech News was late last week because of a MassMessage bug. Other newsletters had the same problem. [9]

Changes later this week

• You will see when you last refreshed the recent changes page. This is so you can see how recent the changes are. [10]
• When you write a comment in Structured Discussions but have not posted it yet your web browser will save it in local storage instead of session storage. This means you do not lose them even if you close your web browser. Structured Discussions used to be called Flow. [11]
• You will be able to turn off milestone notifications. Milestone notifications congratulate you when you have made certain numbers of edits. [12]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 May. It will be on all wikis from 2 May (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 1 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikidata wb_terms table will be dropped. This will affect some Wikidata tools. They need to be updated. The table has become too big which is causing problems. This will happen on 29 May. You can read more. You can ask for help if you need it.
• Wikimedia wikis will soon use a token when you log out. This changes how the API works. Some tools might need to be updated. [13]

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30 apr 2019 00:28 (CEST)

The Signpost: 30 April 2019

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: An Action Packed April

• In the media: Is Wikipedia just another social media site?

• Discussion report: English Wikipedia community's conclusions on talk pages

• Featured content: Anguish, accolades, animals, and art

• Arbitration report: An Active Arbitration Committee

• Traffic report: Mötley Crüe, Notre-Dame, a black hole, and Bonnie and Clyde

• Technology report: A new special page, and other news

• Gallery: Notre-Dame de Paris burns

• News from the WMF: Can machine learning uncover Wikipedia’s missing “citation needed” tags?

• Recent research: Female scholars underrepresented; whitepaper on Wikidata and libraries; undo patterns reveal editor hierarchy

• From the archives: Portals revisited

• Humour: Jimbo and Larry walk into a bar ...

• Opinion: The gaps in our knowledge of our gaps

• Interview: Katherine Maher marks 3 years as executive director

• Community view: 2019 Wikimedia Summit gathers movement affiliate representatives to discuss movement strategy

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Wikipedia:Educatieprogramma

In deze en gerelateerde pagina's staan her en der nog verwijzingen naar functionaliteit van de extensie Education Program, die een jaar geleden is uitgeschakeld. Wat hiervan is nog courant en wat kan gearchiveerd/verwijderd worden? –bdijkstra (overleg) 1 mei 2019 10:48 (CEST)

Hi bdijkstra, Ik dacht dat ik eerdere verwijzingen al eens had weggehaald of beperkt heb tot een enkele (historische) documentatiepagina. Ik heb nu even lopen kijken en ik zie geen verwijzingen naar de verouderde extensie in momenteel in gebruik zijnde pagina's. Er staan natuurlijk wel nog wat verouderde subpagina's die er staan als historische archief. Kun je een voorbeeld geven van een pagina waar er naar verwezen wordt? Groetjes - Romaine (overleg) 29 mei 2019 09:23 (CEST)

Dus deze pagina's zijn allemaal verouderd/archief? –bdijkstra (overleg) 29 mei 2019 09:43 (CEST)

Ja, die zijn allemaal niet meer in gebruik. Ze worden ook niet (meer) van de hoofdpagina gelinkt. Romaine (overleg) 29 mei 2019 09:48 (CEST)

Aha. Maar je kan er nog wel direct naartoe navigeren via Categorie:Wikipedia:Educatieprogramma. Misschien een subcategorie maken voor die verouderde pagina's? –bdijkstra (overleg) 29 mei 2019 10:00 (CEST)

En hoe moet iemand die op Wikipedia:GLAM/Beeld en Geluid/Vogelgeluiden edit-a-thon terechtkomt weten dat de hoofding verouderd is? –bdijkstra (overleg) 11 jun 2019 13:36 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #363

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship: BRPever, welcome on board!

• Events
  • Upcoming: Adding structured and machine-readable data for copyright and licensing on Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata, workshop by Sandra Fauconnier about modelling copyright statuses on Wikidata, 10 May, at the Creative Commons Global Summit in Lisbon
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Utrecht, Netherlands, on May 11th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XV about lexicographical data, May 23th in São Paulo, Brazil

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Kennisverrijking via Wikidata (in Dutch), by Netwerk Oorlogsbronnen, Hanno Lans and Janneke Jorna
  • Solving Art's Data Problem - Part One, Museums. Interview with Neil Stimler by Jason Bailey, mentioning Wikidata quite a few times
  • Technical usability of Wikidata's linked data: Evaluation of machine interoperability and data interpretability - Nuno Freire and Antoine Isaac.
  • Fine-Grained Named Entity Recognition using ELMo and Wikidata - C. Deha Doğan, et al.
  • Debiasing Vandalism Detection Models at Wikidata (PDF), Stefan Heindorf et al.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Scholia receiving a grant from the Sloan Foundation
  • An upcoming version of the iD OpenStreetMap editor will prevent users from accidentally removing notable features if they have a link to Wikidata QIDs
  • New status of constraint, "suggestion", is now enabled

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: precedes word-initial, music video, specifying descriptor
    • External identifiers: Australian War Memorial ID, Whitney Museum of American Art artist ID, SIUSA ID, MyNeta.info political party ID, IndieDB video game ID, interwiki prefix at Wikimedia, K10plus editions, FemBio ID, BlackPast.org ID, Trainline ID, CatholicSaints.info ID, NSW Capital Conviction ID, Dimore Storiche Italiane ID, Dictionnaire des Vendéens ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: gene sequence, Has written for, Rigging, Guix Variable Name, review of, NSF FICE Code ID
    • External identifiers: Watercolour World artist ID, VTB United League player ID, GNU ELPA package ID, MELPA package ID, Paměť národa ID, FragDenStaat public body ID, MobyGames genre ID, Interactive Fiction Database ID, Recreation.gov campground ID, HAL institution ID, Swedish Royal Theater
  • Query examples:
    • Some people are named after the strangest sorts of things (source)
    • Commons categories for a set of books, that have categories for people other than those 'explained' by statements on Wikidata for author, contributor, etc. (source)
    • Timeline for members of the Illuminati Order (source)
    • Newspapers founded before 1900 with their Twitter hashtag (source)

• Development
  • Remove heading elements in Wikibase diffs (phab:T220772)
  • Fix several issues on the Query Service interface (phab:T222182, phab:T222133, phab:T222129)
  • Rename the Schema extension to EntitySchema (phab:T221942)
  • Add data value type to Special:ListDatatypes (phab:T210598)
  • Investigate surprising rise in mobile page views (phab:T220977)
  • Show placeholders for label, description and alias on mobile termbox (phab:T217000)
  • Show each alias in a separate line in edit mode on mobile termbox (phab:T218690)
  • Cancel edit mode on mobile termbox (phab:T215951)

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
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • 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 · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 6 mei 2019 16:30 (CEST)

Sjabloon:Portaal 2

Dag Romaine, Ik ben regelmatig bezig sjabloon:portaal 2 te gebruiken en vraag me af waarom bij de uitgelichte afbeeldingen en artikelen linksboven (voor de titel) na overzicht <//span> staat. Kan dat (<//span> dus) niet uit het sjabloon worden gehaald? Want het staat linksboven het artikel alleen maar in de weg en heeft volgens mij daar geen functie. Wat vind jij daarvan als portaalkenner? Mvg, Sportlex (overleg) 6 mei 2019 18:08 (CEST)

Heb je misschien een link naar een voorbeeld? –bdijkstra (overleg) 6 mei 2019 18:22 (CEST)

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portaal:New_York_(stad) Sportlex (overleg) 6 mei 2019 18:30 (CEST)

Dat was een foutje van gebruiker:Mbch331 in sjabloon:Box-begin+overzicht. Helaas lijkt deze gebruiker niet te geloven in het controleren van zijn eigen wijzigingen. –bdijkstra (overleg) 6 mei 2019 18:59 (CEST)

Tech News: 2019-19

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

• Special:Watchlist can show the wrong information. It does not always show which edits are read and which are unread. The developers are working on solving the problem. [14]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 May. It will be on all wikis from 9 May (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 8 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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6 mei 2019 18:27 (CEST)

This Month in GLAM: April 2019

This Month in GLAM – Volume IX, Issue IV, April 2019 Headlines Albania report: Museum of Kosovo Armenia report: Collaboration with Hovhannes Toumanian museum; Art+Feminism+GLAM Brazil report: Research activity and GLAM-Wiki initiatives Côte d'Ivoire report: Edit-a-thon with 15 librarians and ICT professionals, and a new Wikiclub France report: Nancy Museums Indonesia report: Wikisource meetup and letter translations Italy report: All over Italy Netherlands report: The Near East: from Leiden to Wikipedia; Wikipedia Workshop at Zeeuws Museum; Wiki Goes Caribbean Norway report: Oslo Freedom Forum, Riddu Riđđu, and Márkomeannu Poland report: Outcomes of A+F, new uploads, GLAM conference Serbia report: Serbian Ministry of Culture supporting GLAM Spain report: Edit-a-thons in Madrid and Brasilia, Wiki Loves Falles and Club Wikipedia Sweden report: FindingGLAMs; Sheet music from Musikverket; The first pilot of the Wikimedia Commons Data Roundtripping project is out!; Digikult UK report: Wikidata and Oxford GLAMs USA report: Women's History Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: Upcoming releases, and GLAM pilot projects Wikidata report: Just call us u4 Wikimania report: Updates on the Wikimania conference in Stockholm (Aug 14–18) WMF GLAM report: OpenGLAM Principles, ARL and Wikidata, CC Summit Calendar: May'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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Wikidata weekly summary #364

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

• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikimedia hackathon in Prague, that will include many Wikidata-related sessions and projects, May 17-19
  • Upcoming: UGent Wikidata and Wikibase Workshop 2019, by Julie Birkholz, 3 - 5 July 2019 Ghent, Belgium
  • Upcoming: DC-2019 Hack Day on Wikidata, Wikibase, Application Profiles and FAIR data at DC19 in Seoul, South Korea 23rd - 26th September 2019, Hackathon by Tom Baker and Andra Waagmeester
  • Upcoming: How does Wikimedia Solve the Problems of Biodiversity Informatics, Workshop in Leiden, the Netherlands, 20-25 October

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • How to use a Wikidata full json dump, requirements, steps and script, by Aliakbar Akbaritabar
  • New testing ground for Wikibase: A federal agency goes on an expedition in the Wiki universe, by Barbara Fischer and Jens ohlig

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities code, number of polling stations
    • External identifiers: VTB United League player ID, Archaeology Data Service person ID, Watercolour World artist ID, Drobné památky ID, grwar.ru person ID, Whitney Museum of American Art artwork ID, Russia.tv actor profile ID, Justia Patents assignee ID, Kinosozvezdie biography ID, Musixmatch track ID, LNB Coach id, FragDenStaat public body ID, Orlando author ID, Paměť národa ID, Recreation.gov campground ID, tads.org Unique Identifier, CanLII ID, CineChile filmmaker ID, Heritage Gazetteer of Libya ID, RGALI ID, OBIS ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Xikao School ID, Xikao Repertoire ID, langue d'écriture, nominalised item for this sense, copyright clarification, WMI Code, archevêque, langue liturgique, date d'élévation, province ecclésiastique, diocèse suffragant, f-number, paroisse, prêtre, religieux, religieuse, diacre
    • External identifiers: Victoria and Albert Museum name ID, Campendium ID, ROR ID, MEMORIA ID, Unified Social Credit Identifier, Prazdne Domy architect ID, Know Your Meme entry, Danskefilmstemmer.dk person ID, Harper's author ID, The Atlantic author ID, Character entry on LGBT fans deserve better database, Igromania ID, Pro-Football-Reference coach ID, Keybase username, RFGS person ID
  • Query examples:
    • Street signs in Rennes (source)
    • Lines linking UK MPs' place of birth and their constituency with colour-coded layers for each political party (source)
    • Map of birthplaces for Members of Scottisch Parliament born outside Scotland (source)
    • Global map of dams and reservoirs (source)
    • Lexemes language overlap tree map (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Limits of Wikidata

• Development
  • Finish renaming WikibaseSchema to EntitySchema
  • Investigate how to port Wikibase Selenium tests from Ruby to Node.js (phab:T221638)
  • Include a clear two step process in shex simple tool (phab:T221612)
  • Fix the "edit visually" on the Query Service interface (phab:T222181)
  • More work on wb_terms redesign (see documentation on phab:T221764)
  • More work on mobile termbox
  • Investigate on a bug found on wbeditentity not removing all aliases (phab:T203337)
  • Getting ready for the Wikimedia hackathon

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
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • 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 · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 13 mei 2019 17:08 (CEST)

Tech News: 2019-20

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 14 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 May. It will be on all wikis from 16 May (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 15 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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14 mei 2019 02:49 (CEST)

Tech News: 2019-21

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

• The report for phase 1 of the talk pages consultation 2019 has been published. Communities are invited to start phase 2 of the consultation on their wikis.

Problems

• File descriptions for files from Commons were not shown properly on other Wikimedia wikis for a few days. For example the image descriptions and license information were missing. This has now been fixed. [15][16]
• Some diffs show an error message when you try to see them. The developers are working on fixing it. It could be because of some edit comments. [17][18]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 mei. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 mei. It will be on all wikis from 23 mei (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 22 mei at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The content translation tool on Wikipedia can use machine translations. There is a system to stop translations where the editors do not fix machine translation mistakes. This warns or stops them if they seem to just copy what the machine translation gives them. If this system is too strict or not strict enough you can tell the language team. [19]
• The Wikidata wbeditentity API endpoint will remove all aliases if the request includes an empty alias. This is how it supposed to work. It has not been working this way because of a bug. This will start on 12 June. [20]

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20 mei 2019 15:04 (CEST)

Punten gegeven en ontvangen door Nederland

Beste Romaine,

Ik heb gisteren de pagina aangepast over de gegeven en ontvangen punten van Nederland op het songfestival. Daarna zijn er nog een flink aantal aanpassing geweest. Nu klopt volgens mij een deel van de punten niet meer. Alleen was mijn aanpassing de eerste keer dat ik een toevoeging deed op Wikipedia dus ben ik wat in verwarring hoe dit te wijzigen. Als je in de geschiedenis kijkt zie je op dit tijdstip: 19 mei 2019 11:10‎ de eerste wijziging. Daarna volgen er nog velen, waarna jij als laatste nog wijzigt. Ben je het eens en hoe kunnen we dit wijzigen?

Vriendelijke groet,

Jordi

Wikidata weekly summary #365

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Talk pages consultation 2019, phase 2

• Events
  • Past: Wikimedia hackathon 2019 in Prague, where plenty of people worked on Wikidata and Wikibase related projects (see list below)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Affinity Group Meeting, 21 May 2019
  • Upcoming: Hacknowledge 2019 hackathon, where you can make a project that uses or improves Wikidata. Moscow, Russia, May 25-26
  • Upcoming: Let's start Wikidata!/ウィキデータを始めよう！, 25 May 2019@Tokyo

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Ordia: A Web application for Wikidata lexemes, by Finn Årup Nielsen
  • Papers on Rust by Magnus Manske
  • Building Knowledge Base through Deep Learning Relation Extraction and Wikidata (Published in AAAI Spring Symposium: Combining Machine Learning with Knowledge Engineering, 2019)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • [Breaking Change] wbeditentity including empty alias set will remove all aliases
  • Update: change of dates regarding wb_terms redesign. More information in this ticket
  • Support for shape expressions will be enabled on Wikidata on May 28th
  • Reminder: the program submission phase for Wikimania runs until June 1st
  • QAnswer, a question answering system based on Wikidata and other projects, now supports lexicographical data
  • Wikidata-related projects presented during the Wikimedia Hackathon 2019 (see all documented projects)
    • Integraality/Template:Property dashboard, to generate property statistics tables for Wikiprojects like the ones made for Sum of all Paintings, hospitals and video games
    • BlockQuery: Prototype of a graphical QueryBuilder to click and drag.
    • Prototype of an Alexa Skill of Voice assisted editing of Wikidata Source Code Screenshot
    • Wikidata Quality Score Display: Gadget that displays on a Wikipedia article the quality level of the related Wikidata item
    • Wikidocumentaries service approaches beta quality and displays content from Wikimedia and other openly licensed sources for each Wikidata item. The latest user interface translations are Indonesian and Russian, and the newest content source plugin for the related images section is the brand new Creative Commons Search catalog.
    • GPS-friendly download of query result & Download of RDF Formats
    • Some documentation about shape expressions was prepared
    • Improvements on Namescript (documentation, descriptions for kanji names)
    • Wiki loves iNaturalist, a tool to look for images in iNaturalist, matching them with Wikidata
    • Mortar: easily upload GLAM collections in Wikidata and Commons
    • Fixing the URL shorteners on the Query Service interface
    • AddQuickClaim.js: pass the property and target item you want to add to an item into the url so you can quickly add a statement
    • ExternalItemSuggester.js: a gadget that provides autocomplete for selected external ID properties
    • Localization for the Saami and Romani languages was improved.
    • All of the copyright-negative pictures and metadata of the digital image repository of the National Archive of Curaçao were scraped. They will possibly be batch-uploaded later on.
    • Wikidata Stream: A nice view of the Wikidata edit stream to use as an eye-catcher for people interested in Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: exposure time, supported sports team
    • External identifiers: Flora of Australia ID (new), NARA record group number, Know Your Meme ID, NARA collection identifier, FilmFreeway ID, Dictionary of Anhui Writers ID, V&A artist ID, Guix Variable Name, Who's on First ID, FoodOn ID, SportSport.ba news ID, CNKI article ID, Swiss National Sound Archives ID, Arabic Ontology ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Seating chart properties, Arachne Bauwerk ID, ISO speed, target muscle, Pinakes author ID, University of Amsterdam Album Academicum ID
    • External identifiers: Buddhist Author Authority Database ID, ITF women's tournament ID, Digital Giza ID, National Library of Wales Catalogue ID, ATP tennis tournament edition ID, NooSFere edition ID, TV Tropes identifier, Find New Zealand Artists iD, Kobo author ID, Malaysia company number, GLIMS ID, Gamepedia Wiki id, ProofWiki ID, Mediapart tag ID, abART ID, Corporate Number (South Korea), Art Gallery of South Australia work ID, Art Gallery of South Australia creator ID, speedrun.com game ID, JIS standard, Hoopla artist ID, OSZMI ID, Hoopla publisher ID, Repology, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant ID, Elhuyar Dictionary ID
  • Query examples:
    • Most common properties for maps, with their top 5 values (source)
    • Timeline of pioneers of photography, via Wikidata and DBpedia (source)
    • Maps of synagogues in Czech Republic (source)
    • Lexemes that lack Senses but have at least one usage example (source)

• Development
  • Added lastrevid of entities to JSON dumps – thanks Pintoch!
  • Working to scale the Wikidata Concepts Monitor system (phab:T203366)
  • Imrpove logging in on mobile (phab:T215913)
  • More work on mobile termbox
  • Several developers from the Wikidata team attended to the hackathon, discussed with the community, gathered feedback, hacked on things together with volunteers :)

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
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • 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 · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 21 mei 2019 12:26 (CEST)

Crystal houses

Belofte maakt schuld; het pand Crystal houses is eindelijk weer ontdaan van de schutting.Ceescamel (overleg) 25 mei 2019 14:24 (CEST)

Hallo Ceescamel, hartelijk dank voor de foto's! :-) Romaine (overleg) 29 mei 2019 09:18 (CEST)

Nieuwsbrief 82 Wikimedia Nederland

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Wikidata weekly summary #366

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

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata Labs XV in Brazil, with an introduction to lexicographical data (slides)
  • Past: Workshop for experienced editors of nl.wiktionary to explore the possibilities of lexicographical data.

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Using contemporary constraints to ensure data consistency. David Abián, Jorge Bernad, Raquel Trillo LadoPublished in SAC 2019. DOI:10.1145/3297280.3297509 (Paywalled)
  • Published in WWW 2019
    • Fast Interval Joins for Temporal SPARQL Queries. Melisachew Wudage Chekol, Giuseppe Pirrò, Heiner Stuckenschmidt. DOI:10.1145/3308560.3314997
    • QAnswer: A Question Answering prototype bridging the gap between a considerable part of the LOD cloud and end-users. Ronan Cummins, et al. DOI:10.1145/3308558.3314124
    • Implicit Bias in Crowdsourced Knowledge Graphs. Gianluca Demartini. DOI:10.1145/3308560.3317307
    • Learning to Map Wikidata Entities To Predefined Topics. Preeti Bhargava, et al. DOI:10.1145/3308560.3316749
  • Citation.js: Wikidata Update, by Lars Willighagen
  • Wikidata: Open Linked Data for Library Publishing, by Mairelys Lemus-Rojas et al.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The US Library of Congress are integrating Wikidata QIDs into their authority files (blog post)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Buddhist Author Authority Database ID, HAL structure ID, Mod DB video game ID, Finnish Trade Register ID, IMTL.org ID, Danskefilmstemmer.dk person ID, OBO Gazetteer ID, (speedy delete me), LGBTFansDB character ID, ProofWiki ID, ROR ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: title qualifiers, goodwill ambassador of, UPA transcription, hospital beds, Courage ID, bibliography url
    • External identifiers: Messes.info Catholic parish ID, The DRAGON Archive id, racing-reference track ID, racing-reference race ID, Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic (DPRR) ID, MSX Games World ID, Coco Game List ID, Dictionary of Irish Biography ID, Ask.fm ID, National Film Board of Canada director identifier
  • Query examples:
    • European countries that have a street named after them in Rennes
    • Map of meteor impact craters (source)
    • Bubble chart of all instances of color which have an sRGB color hex triplet (source)
    • Number of riots per country (source)
    • European country having the most female politicians (source)

• Development
  • Deploy the EntitySchema extension on test.wikidata.org and beta.wikidata.org
  • Remove the remaining beta feature config for constraint-suggestions (phab:T220609)
  • Introduce baserevid for conflict checking in Lexeme (phab:T217245)
  • Fix a bug making impossible to get Lexeme Forms and Senses via the API (phab:T223995)
  • Add Wikidata query service lag to Wikidata maxlag (phab:T221774)
  • Allow accessing Wikibase entities from multiple Wikibase databases (phab:T214557)
  • More work to get termbox ready for deployment
  • Add a login warning on mobile termbox editing (phab:T221831)

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
  • Suggested and open tasks!
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Tech News: 2019-22

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

• Big changes to the replica database will happen on 3 June. Some tools on Cloud Services will stop working if the maintainers do not update them to use the new schema. This probably affects tools that query for revisions or log entries made by a user. [21][22]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 May. It will be on all wikis from 30 May (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 29 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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27 mei 2019 17:34 (CEST)

Banner

Beste Romaine,

Die banner die alle pagina's "bevuilt" bevat een taalfoutje: "op" moet zijn "om" om de zin goed te laten klinken.

Echter: "op" kan wel, maar dan moet je de hele zin veranderen inplaats een letter volgens bovenstaande tip.

Collegiale groeten, Klaas `Z4␟` V:  28 mei 2019 18:20 (CEST)

Aangepast - Romaine (overleg) 29 mei 2019 09:12 (CEST)

als we jou niet hadden zouden we hier veel minder voldoen aan strenge eisen van dames, heren, jongetjes en meisjes die ze wel Piet Lut noemden vroeger.
 Klaas `Z4␟` V:  31 mei 2019 18:41 (CEST)

This Month in Education: May 2019

This Month in Education Volume 8 • Issue 5 • May 2019 Contents • Headlines • Subscribe In This Issue Education in Wales Wikimedia & Education Greenhouse: Applications closed! Wiki Camp 'Meet Germany' Seniors also count! Mandatory internship at Wikimedia Armenia Wikimedia Experience Survey by VVIT WikiConnect OFWA Wikipedia Education Highlights April 2019 Wikimedia Education at "Wikicamp Chattogram 2019" Edit a thon about flora and fauna to celebrate the earth day

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The Signpost: 31 May 2019

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editors: Picture that

• News and notes: Wikimania and trustee elections

• In the media: Politics, lawsuits and baseball

• Discussion report: Admin abuse leads to mass-desysop proposal on Azerbaijani Wikipedia

• Recent research: Wikipedia more useful than academic journals, but is it stealing the news?

• Arbitration report: ArbCom forges ahead

• News from the WMF: Wikimedia Foundation petitions the European Court of Human Rights to lift the block of Wikipedia in Turkey

• Traffic report: Dark marvels, thrones, a vile serial killer biopic, that's entertainment!

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Wikidata weekly summary #367

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

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata workshop, May 27th at UIN Maliki, Malang, Indonesia (in collaboration with Faculty of Computer Science, UI) - Slideset link - Press release
  • Past: OSM x Wikidata workshop, June 3rd, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Days 2019, June 7-8th in Lisbon, Portugal.
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XVI, June 13th in São Paulo, Brazil
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Edit-a-thon during Atla 2019, June 13th, Vancouver, Canada

• Press, articles, blog posts

• • Blogpost by RightStatements.org - a system of standardised interoperable rights and reuse information for GLAMs - describing the role and importance of the property P6426.
  • Welcome Japan Search to the web of Linked Open Data by Martin Poulter, Bodleian Digital Library

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Shape expressions are now live on Wikidata
  • At WikiWoordenboek (Dutch wiktionary) a project titled Widawiwo has begun to explore how the maximal mutual benefit of Wikidata and WikiWoordenboek can be achieved.
  • Hauki is a new tool by d:User:Vesihiisi to browse lexicographical data.
  • Wikidata trainings & online courses for librarians by WikiEdu

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: ISO speed, f-number, WMI Code, minimum wage, UPA transcription
    • External identifiers: speedrun.com game ID, Harper's author ID, Pakistan Railways station code, National Library of Wales Catalogue ID, Arachne building ID, Messes.info Catholic parish ID, The Atlantic author ID, Find NZ Artists ID, Unified Social Credit Identifier, OSZMI ID, MSX Games World ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: motif represents, Shape Expression for class, Album Academicum-identificatiecode, gender educated, ABA League ID, start grade, end grade, digilibLT author ID, IntraText author ID, in defining formula, PHI Latin Texts author ID, associated shape, comparison image, emergency services, Married by
    • External identifiers: Rugby League Project ID (general), Hungarian National Namespace, Pakistan EMIS code(s), CCDC Number, swMATH work ID, Czech parliament ID, Tainacan MAI ID, Biographical Dictionary Of Iowa ID, Pro Football Hall of Fame ID (new), euroleague.net coach ID, eurobasket.com coach ID, Who's Who of American Comic Books, PCE Daisakusen ID, Musixmatch artist ID, eBiodiversity ID
  • Query examples:
    • Gay parades in Italy in 2019
    • Map of communes of the French area "Ille-et-Vilaine" which share borders (source)
    • Connections between the subject and printing location of Welsh landscape prints (source)
    • Dunes in Wikidata (source)
    • Co-author network of Journal of Cheminformatics authors (source)
    • Map of archives in the world (source)
  • Newest database reports: frequent first names in Spain

• Development
  • Specify license of mediawiki/Wikibase/WikibaseLexeme ontology (phab:T216842)
  • Enable bugfix on beta for wbeditentity setting aliases to empty array (phab:T223300)
  • Use correct validator in alias changeop and provide error messages if alias is too short (phab:T223311)
  • More work on the use of special pages Special:SetAliases and Special:SetLabelDescriptionAliases with aliases containing | character (phab:T223270)
  • Add Wikidata query service lag to Wikidata maxlag (phab:T221774)
  • Fix BadMethodCallException wbgetentities when getting Lexeme subentities (forms, senses) (phab:T223995)
  • Scale the machine learning components of the WDCM system w. {text2vec} WarpLDA implementation (phab:T203366)
  • Inspect strange behavior of the WD_percentUsageDashboard (phab:T217994)
  • WDCM dashboards maintenance: eliminating the need to use the wdcm.maintable in Hive, WDCM Geo is now independent of it (with its update engine running Spark instead) and re-designed to match the WDCM standards (phab:T217994, phab:T214586, phab:T217997)
  • Further preparations for the Wikidata Languages Landscape project (phab:T221965)
  • More progress in order to get the mobile service deployed
  • Adding an IP edit warning popup for mobile termbox (phab:T221831)
  • Allowing users to ignore this popup permanently (phab:T221833)

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• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
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  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
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Tech News: 2019-23

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

• You can now write all special letters in all African Wikipedia languages. This works in the desktop version. [23]
• There is now a field called depicts on Commons. This is a way to show what is in a picture with the help of Wikidata. It is still in development. [24]
• Some tools on Toolforge may break on or after 3 June because of database changes. Maintainers should update their tools to use the new schema. [25][26]

Problems

• You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for 30 minutes on 19 June at 05:00 (UTC). This is to fix a hardware problem. [27]

Changes later this week

• Some wikis have one tab for the visual editor and one tab for a wikitext editor. Others wikis just have one tab. If your wiki has two tabs, clicking a link to create a new page has always opened a wikitext editor. It will now open the editor you used the last time you edited. [28]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 May. It will be on all wikis from 6 May (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 5 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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3 jun 2019 17:24 (CEST)

Chris van Abkoude

U vraagt bronvermeldingen bij een aantal passages in het door mij geschreven artikel over Chris van Abkoude. De WIKI tekst is een beknopte samenvatting van mijn biografie uit 2017 welke ca. 1000 bronvermeldingen bevat. Wellicht kan volstaan worden door de biografie als bron op te nemen?

Groet,

Jan Maliepaard

Ja, hoewel er dan wel 1 scherp randje aan zit. Eigen werk als bron een voor wiki-artikel, wordt door sommigen als problematisch gezien, omdat liefst secundaire bronnen worden gebruikt. Uw eigen werk is dan een primaire bron. Als in die 1000 bronvermeldingen ook een goede secundaire bron zit die als algemene beschrijving dienst kan doen, zou die nog beter zijn. Dan kan eventueel uw biografie er nog naast, er vanuit gaande dat uw biografie een serieus uitgegeven werk is. Edoderoo (overleg) 4 jun 2019 07:14 (CEST)

Zucht. Ik heb de moeite genomen het artikel te schrijven omdat op wiki zoveel onzin stond over deze schrijver doordat als bron gebruik gemaakt was van krantenartikelen die niet klopten. De betreffende biografie is tot stand gekomen na 20 jaar onderzoek, opgenomen in de lijst Historische publicaties over Rotterdam en genomineerd voor de Mr. J. Dulithprijs (beste historische boek over Rotterdams onderwerp) en veelvuldig besproken in de media, w.o. 4 sterren in de volkskrant met als duiding 'goed gedocumenteerde biografie' Dit lijkt mij als bron toch een stuk betrouwbaarder dan een verwijzing naar een krantenartikel, waarvan ik tijdens mijn langdurig onderzoek tot de conclusie ben gekomen dat dit laatste als bron feitelijk ongeschikt is. Zelfs bij het paginagroot bespreken van de biografie door NRC, Volkskrant, Parool, Trouw enz. las ik veel fouten door haast en slordig plak- en knipwerk.

Helaas heb ik zelf geen tijd om het artikel mbv de biografie van allerlei bronnen te gaan voorzien, maar ik nodig een ieder graag uit deze moeite te ondernemen.

Het is een beetje inherent aan Wikipedia. We papegaaien de bronnen na, en als de bronnen onzin verkopen, doet Wikipedia dat ook. Voor het grote publiek is dat in de meeste gevallen goed genoeg, maar voor de echte kenner niet. Hoe meer je van een onderwerp weet, hoe meer je tenen gaan krommen bij het lezen van een artikel, dat herken ik zelf ook wel. Maar een van de basis-pijlers van Wikipedia is dat alles uit bronnen komt, of eigenlijk uit secundaire bronnen, en dat meningen van individuen daar ondergeschikt aan zijn. Bij lastige kwesties (Koerden, vaccinatie, het geloof, Wilders/Baudet/etc) is het wel eens lastig het allemaal zo zakelijk op te pakken, zeker als je zelf een emotionele binding met het onderwerp hebt. Soms is geduldig wachten tot een ander er actie in onderneemt wel de juiste manier. Hopelijk kan mijn uitleg wel wat begrip kweken in waarom het soms werkt zoals het werkt. Edoderoo (overleg) 4 jun 2019 10:31 (CEST)

Het was niet Romaine maar Muijz die om bronnen vroeg. Wellicht beter dit overleg daarheen verplaatsen? –bdijkstra (overleg) 4 jun 2019 14:49 (CEST)

Klopt, dat was ik - zoals iedereen in de geschiedenis van het artikel kan nakijken.(link) En het overleg over dit artikel dient bij voorkeur gevoerd op de overlegpagina bij het artikel.

Als de biografie in kwestie gezaghebbend is kan ik wel leven met die biografie als bron, maar wat ik dan niet begrijp is waarom bij relevante passages niet even is aangegeven op welke pagina van de biografie in kwestie de betreffende informatie is te vinden. En bijvoorbeeld de ingezonden brief onder de titel 'Een waarschuwing' heb ik in Delpher niet teruggevonden, dus daar zag ik dan graag een link.

Overigens is mij nu wel duidelijk waarom dit artikel zo buitenproportioneel lang is; bijna vierduizend woorden, exclusief de bibliografie. (Ter vergelijking: het artikel over Frank Ramsey telt tweeduizend woorden. Maar Ramsey ljkt mij toch wel iets belangrijker dan Chris van Abkoude.) Muijz (overleg) 4 jun 2019 23:58 (CEST)

Beste Muijz,

'Relevante passages'die om een separate bronvermelding vragen is tamelijk subjectief. Het artikel kan naar mijn inschatting voorzien worden van een paar honderd bronvermeldingen, dan wordt het artikel nog een stuk langer. Daarover gesproken: Dat u het onderwerp zelf subjectief benaderd blijkt overigens uit uw tamelijk vileine opmerking over de lengte van het artikel. Voor u is een artikel over een Britse wiskundige van groter belang dan een Nederlandse kinderschrijver, maar dat is natuurlijk geen algemene maatstaf: Ik persoonlijk hou bijvoorbeeld niet van voetbal, maar kan mij goed voorstellen dat een liefhebber graag een uitgebreide verslaglegging leest over zijn idool Johan Cruyff en dan is het fijn dat iemand de moeite neemt daar tijd en energie in te steken. Ik ben overigens niet erg onder de indruk van uw onderzoekskills op Delpher. De ingezonden brief die u niet terug kan vinden werd onder meer op 8 november 1913 gepubliceerd in Algemeen Handelsblad, 10 november 1913 in De Telegraaf en 15 november 1913 in Het Volk. Allen eenvoudig terug te vinden.

Redirect 'Rampvlucht'

Hallo Romaine. Ik zag dat je begin 2018 Rampvlucht hebt aangemaakt als redirect naar de ramp met de MH17. Het woord 'rampvlucht' werd n.a.v. die ramp winnaar bij de verkiezing 'Woord van het jaar' 2014 (Onze Taal), maar rechtvaardigt dat zo'n redirect? Er zijn immers wel meer vluchten die als rampvlucht kunnen worden aangemerkt. Ook zie ik dat er vanuit de hoofdnaamruimte maar 1 inkomende link is (nl. vanaf Woord van het jaar...) en de redirectpagina vrijwel niet wordt bezocht. Ik twijfel dan ook aan het nut van deze pagina. Groet, Apdency (overleg) 5 jun 2019 11:36 (CEST)

Ik heb hem verwijderd. Groet, Apdency (overleg) 11 jun 2019 18:52 (CEST)

De verwijdering lijkt me terecht, maar zou dit geen redirect naar iets anders (een algemeen artikel over een luchtvaartgerelateerd onderwerp) kunnen zijn? Of misschien wel gewoon een artikel op zich? De Wikischim (overleg) 11 jun 2019 19:23 (CEST)

Hoi De Wikischim, geen slecht idee. De meest voor de hand liggende kandidaat-doelpagina lijkt me dan Vliegramp. Apdency (overleg) 11 jun 2019 19:48 (CEST)

Ik denk dat Lijst van luchtvaartongevallen een betere kandidaat is. The Banner Overleg 11 jun 2019 19:53 (CEST)

Misschien idd. nog iets logischer. Ik probeerde net zelf het artikel Vliegramp wat aan te passen zodat het verband duidelijker was, maar Saschaporsche kon het weer eens niet laten zich er ook mee te bemoeien. De Wikischim (overleg) 11 jun 2019 20:33 (CEST)

Ik zou een kort artikeltje, dat met bron vermeldt dat het woord van het jaar was, nog wel te rechtvaardigen. Daarin kunnen links als vliegramp natuurlijk in genoemd worden. Edoderoo (overleg) 11 jun 2019 21:01 (CEST)

@Apdency: Poeh, dat is al weer lang geleden. Ik zit te bedenken of ik een reden kan bedenken, maar kom op niks. De redirect is duidelijk scheef, geen probleem met verwijdering of linken naar iets anders. Groetjes - Romaine (overleg) 12 jun 2019 01:47 (CEST)

This Month in GLAM: May 2019

This Month in GLAM – Volume IX, Issue V, May 2019 Headlines From the team: Your help is needed Armenia report: Cooperation with Central Bank of Armenia Australia report: Festivals of history, heritage and #1Lib1Ref Brazil report: Full catalog of Impressionist painter Eliseu Visconti into Wikidata and Commons Canada report: New partnership with Library and Archives Canada, and a GLAM Wiki Summit in Toronto Colombia report: Free Software Festival Finland report: Starting to work with the Saami languages Indonesia report: More Kajawen on Commons Italy report: Open air, artistic and historical edit-a-thons North Macedonia report: WikiScout Poland report: 30 years on: Free elections, free market Serbia report: Wikipedian in Residence at Serbian National Theatre Spain report: International Museum Day and FESABID19 Sweden report: Runic Recordings UK report: Data Week and Data Joy USA report: Asian Pacific American History Month Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: Updates on development; GLAM pilot projects; Wikimania Hackathon with GLAM focus are Wikipedia Library report: Books & Bytes–Issue 33, March–April 2019 Wikidata report: Library of Congress recognition; Hackathon results Wikimedia and Libraries User Group report: Hangout with Wikimedia and Libraries User Group WMF GLAM report: Creative Commons Global Summit 2019 Calendar: June'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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Tech News: 2019-24

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

• When you create a PDF from a page on the wiki this is now done by Proton. Before this we used Electron. It should look the same but work better. Both use Chromium. This is a different system from when you collect several articles into a book and make a PDF from them. [29][30]
• The Flagged Revisions extension now uses the standard OOUI icons. There will be additional minor fixes for positioning in the next deployment. [31]
• Bots and other scripts that do not set an identifiable User-Agent may find their requests strictly rate-limited until they identify themselves properly. [32]

Problems

• Please check if the Flagged Revisions configuration on your wiki is as you expect (or as it was a few weeks ago). If not, please report it. [33]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 12 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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10 jun 2019 19:06 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #368

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

• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Edit-a-Thon in Atla, Canada, 13 June 2019
  • Upcoming: the Celtic Knot Conference, dedicated to minority languages in the Wikimedia projects, will take place in Penryn, Cornwall, on July 4-5. The program is published and will contain several Wikidata-related sessions. The registration is open

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Batches of Rust - Magnus' improvements to QuickStatements
  • Robustifying Scholia — Developing a Wikipedia interface for exploring the research ecosystem

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The W3C Entity Reconciliation Community Group has launched

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: sequenced genome URL, number of hospital beds, related image, taxa found at location, calendar feed URL, calligrapher, replacement property, feed-in tariff
    • External identifiers: GLIMS ID, Art Gallery of South Australia creator ID, Art Gallery of South Australia work ID, racing-reference race ID, racing-reference track ID, SportSport.ba player ID, Xikao History ID, Xikao Repertoire ID, Prazdne Domy architect ID, AntWiki article ID, Mediapart tag ID, NWBib ID, University of Amsterdam Album Academicum ID, The Dragon Archive ID, SVT Open archive ID, Australian bank branch ID, Alvin ID, Tainacan MAI ID, GNU ELPA package ID, RFGS person ID, Igromania ID, Czech parliament ID, Dictionary of Irish Biography ID, swMATH work ID, Pinakes author ID, IndicePA ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Married by, Access status, Musixmatch album ID, Antecedent anatomical structure, effective temperature, aperture, surface gravity, historic first
    • External identifiers: ECI Lok Sabha constituency code, DR.dk Tag ID, Réunionnais du monde ID, Planilla Códigos Únicos Territoriales (CUT), Doximity ID, dbSNP ID, Bloodhound ID, Xing profile ID, NeoGeoSoft ID, Den Store Danske Encyklopædi ID, MAHG ID, Syriac Biographical Dictionary ID, Ciência ID
  • Query examples:
    • Items in Japanese museums by British sculptors (federated query with Japan Search) (source)
    • Number of items about Australia created over time (source)
    • Federated query comparing Wikidata and UK Parliament database, to show differences of more than 10km in locations of UK parliamentary constituencies (source)

• Development
  • When typing an item ID on Special:Search, labels are now shown in the suggestion menu
  • More work on preparing the migration of wb_terms to the new design
  • Add CC0 License overlay popup on termbox editing (phab:T221835)
  • Add "You are not logged in" overlay popup on termbox editing (phab:T221831)
  • Add the "Remember my choice" checkbox to the "You are not logged in" popup on mobile termbox editing (phab:T221833)
  • Add EntitySchema in the license footer (phab:T224536)
  • Several improvements to shex simple tools (phab:T221604, phab:T221606)
  • Work on an issue with a deleted constraint still appearing on Lexemes (phab:T223372)
  • Work on normalistation in the Lua API mw.wikibase.getEntityIdForTitle (phab:T224593)
  • Improved tests and fixed failing tests

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
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • 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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Structured Data - testing qualifiers for depicts

As you might have seen, testing is underway for adding qualifiers to depicts statements. If you have not left feedback already, the Structured Data on Commons development team is very interested in hearing about your experience using qualifiers on the file page and in the UploadWizard. To get started you can visit Test-Commons and chose a random file to test out, or upload your own file to try out the UploadWizard. Questions, comments, and concerns can be left on the Structured data talk page and the team will address them as best as they can. Thank you for your time. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 11 jun 2019 21:08 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #369

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Unifying GO activities and enzyme articles

• Events
  • Upcoming: ld4-Wikidata Affinity Group call on June 18th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Paris, France, on June 21st
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Wellington, New Zealand, on June 22nd

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • EventKG - the Hub of Event Knowledge on the Web - and Biographical Timeline Generation - Simon Gottschalk, Elena Demidova (in ArXiv)
  • Assessing The Factual Accuracy of Generated Text Ben Goodrich, et al. (in ArXiv)
  • Enriching Bibliographic Data by Combining String Matching and the Wikidata Knowledge Graph to Improve the Measurement of International Research Collaboration Xuan Nguyen, et al. (in ArXiv)
  • Treasured Manuscript collection gets the Wikidata Treatment, on the National Library of Wales' blog
  • On the road to joint embedding with Wikidata lexemes? by Finn Årup Nielsen
  • Wikipedia and Wikidata user contributions as part of Wikipedia for Peace at Europride Vienna 2019

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata-Toolkit 0.10.0 was released
  • New Grafana board: number of edits per namespace

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: title in HTML, title in LaTeX, student organization of, emergency services, average speed
    • External identifiers: Pro Football Reference coach ID, Keybase username, Elhuyar Dictionary ID, TV Tropes identifier, ITF tournament ID, Campendium ID, Malaysia company number, abART person ID, abART document ID, abART exhibition ID, abART group ID, abART institution ID, DR.dk topic ID, ABA League ID, Biographical Dictionary Of Iowa ID, CCDC Number, Coco Game List ID, Dimensions grant ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: text of verse, literary motif, scribe.amanuensis or copyist.illuminator, distribution format, phosphorylates, RogerEbert.com film ID, literacy rate, Retrosheets ID
    • External identifiers: 7digital United Kingdom artist ID, Metacritic person ID, Nacionālā enciklopēdija, IMVDb artist ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts artist ID, Charts in France artist ID, VG-lista artist ID, Beatport artist ID, Djshop artist ID, Gaana.com artist ID, Juno Download artist ID, Moov artist ID, Murfie artist ID, Napster artist ID, Qobuz artist ID, YouTube Music channel ID, Bebo profile ID, Steam profile ID, Pandora artist ID, SNBP ID, Fundamental.org Baptist Church ID, EMIS codes for Pakistani provinces, RIAA artist ID, Gambay ID, Facebook Gaming game ID, Cameo ID, Amburger database ID, BVLarramendi, Equipboard artist ID
  • Query examples:
    • Table of counts of distinct MPs, legislative terms and per constituency P39s for UK parliamentary constituencies, with links to per constituency reports (source)
    • Reverse taxon names of 100 mosquitoes (source)
    • Five-letter words beginning with "f", from wikidata's lexeme collection (source)
    • Péniches in Lyon
    • Lexemes ordered according to compound parts (source)
    • Airports named after a person, color-coded by gender (source)
    • Timeline of the Chief Mousers of 10 Downing Street, with photographs when available
  • Newest WikiProjects: European Colonialism

• Development
  • Grafana now tracks the number of edits per namespace (phab:T218901) and the EntitySchemas on the entity by type board (phab:T216835)
  • Fixed a bug Special:MobileDiff for an EntitySchema Revision (phab:T224545)
  • Make possible to edit items via wbeditentity when they have same label and description, if the edit is about making them different (phab:T222621)
  • Fix a bug on ArticlePlaceholder hook on SpecialSearch (phab:T207235)
  • Add CC0 License overlay popup on termbox editing (phab:T221835)
  • More maintainance on the WDCM dashboards T214586 (phab:T217997)
  • Maintain the WDCM Biases Dashboard to make it fully client-side dependent

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
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • 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: 2019-25

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

• You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for 30 minutes on 19 June at 05:00 (UTC). This is to fix a hardware problem. [34]

Changes later this week

• MIDI files can soon be played without the Score extension. You can then add them with [[File:Filename.midi]]. Later override_midi and override_audio will stop working. Instead you will need to add the MIDI file below the music score. [35]
• A new video player will soon replace the old one. You will be able to enable it as a beta feature in your preferences. It will later be enabled for everyone if there are no big problems. [36]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 June. It will be on all wikis from 20 June (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 19 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Some gadgets and user scripts still use the old wgEnableAPI and wgEnableWriteAPI values. These values are always true. They will soon be removed. This might break the gadgets and scripts. You should fix your gadgets to not use these values. [37]

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17 jun 2019 22:37 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #370

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for comments: semi-protection to prevent vandalism on most used Items

• Events
  • Upcoming: 1st Iberoamerican Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Web Conference keynote on Wikidata by José E. Labra Villa Clara, Cuba 24-28 June
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meeting for researchers in Sfax University, Tunisia, 25-27 June 2019
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in London, June 29th
  • Upcoming: July 3rd: UGent Wikidata and Wikibase Workshop 2019

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Demonstrating Spindra: A Geographic Knowledge Graph Management System, Yuhan Sun, et al (in 2019 IEEE 35th International Conference on Data Engineering)
  • Comparing DBpedia, Wikidata, and YAGO for Web Information Retrieval, Sini Govinda Pillai, et al.
  • WikiDataSets: Standardized sub-graphs from WikiData, Armand Boschin, in ArXiv
  • Ordia: A Web application for Wikidata lexemes, Finn Årup Nielsen
  • Combining embedding methods for a word intrusion task Finn Årup Nielsen, et al
  • Query expansion using Wikidata attributes’ values Sarah Dahir, Abderrahim et al., in ICCWCS'19
  • Automatic Question Generation based on MOOC Video Subtitles and Knowledge Graph Lin Ma, Yuchun Ma, in ICIET 2019
  • Wikidata as a linked-data hub for Biodiversity data, Andra Waagmeester, et al.
  • Using Crowd-curation to Improve Taxon Annotations on the Wikimedia Infrastructure, Andra Waagmeester, et al.
  • Using Shape Expressions (ShEx) to Share RDF Data Models and to Guide Curation with Rigorous Validation, et al. Best in-use paper award ESWC
  • From “an” Identifier to “the” Identifier, Theo van Veen
  • Developing workflows for local authority file conversion from MARC to Wikidata

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Structured Data on Commons: qualifiers for depicts support have been enabled on June 20th
  • Result format change for Query Service JSON query output
  • Filename scheme for Wikidata RDF entity dumps will change
  • The development of Wikidata Bridge (editing Wikidata's data from Wikipedia) started
  • CheckShex userscript adds an in-page way of checking if an item fits an Entityschema

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: has written for, motif represents, solar irradiance, effective temperature
    • External identifiers: JIS standard, Réunionnais du monde ID, Corporate Number (South Korea), dbSNP ID, digilibIT author ID, Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic ID, eBiodiversity ID, eurobasket.com coach ID, euroleague.net coach ID, Gamepedia Wiki ID, Hoopla artist ID, Hoopla publisher ID, Latvian National Encyclopedia Online ID, ECI Lok Sabha constituency code, IntraText author ID, Musixmatch artist ID, MAHG ID, Amburger database ID, ATP tennis tournament edition ID, Rugby League Project ID (general), RIAA artist ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: extracted from, Instagram hashtag, Historical Archives of the European Union ID, number of pins, number of pin positions, Representative in legislature, subscribers
    • External identifiers: nchdb asset id, Biblioteca Nacional Aruba ID, Bangladesh administrative division code (2017-), Goodreads series ID, Heritage Gazetteer of Cyprus, Retrosheet ID, The DJ List artist ID, BBC artist ID, The Independent topic ID, NME artist ID, Metro topic ID, MangaSeek person ID, Soccerway coach ID, Nederlandse Top 40 artist ID, Dutch Charts artist ID, hitparade.ch artist ID, Aviation Safety Network Wikibase ID, Find & Connect ID, SA Flora ID, ATRF ID, geograph, ArtBrokerage artist ID, Indian gallantry awardee ID, Scandipop topic ID, iTunes movie collection ID, SLNSW unpublished item ID, LB.ua dossier, FPBR person ID, RBF amateur boxer ID, RBF professional boxer ID, Roskomnadzor media license number, 2014 Commonwealth Games athlete ID, Music certifictions ID, El portal de Música artist ID
  • Query examples:
    • Most commonly used qualifiers on depicts (P180) statements on Wikidata, with top 10 classes or items that each one is used on (source)
    • Most commonly used properties connecting military people to military organisations (source)
    • Bubblechart of most frequent WMF import sources
    • French male first names ending with "ée" (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Australia
  • Newest database reports: Property completion by country leaderboard

• Development
  • Beginning of wb_terms migration (phab:T221764)
  • Fixed a bug with phan on Wikibase (phab:T226083)
  • Enable bugfix for wbeditentity setting aliases to empty array (phab:T223303)
  • Fix an issue with pipe character on some special pages (phab:T223270)
  • Fix an issue with removed constraint still displayed on Lexeme (phab:T223372)
  • Make edits to EntitySchema pages autopatrolled (phab:T224495)
  • Work on creating better edit summaries for wbeditentity API endpoint (phab:T224010)
  • Deploy the work environment for new mobile termbox
  • Start setting up the technical environment for Wikidata bridge

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
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • 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: 2019-26

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

• The new version of MediaWiki for last week was not fully released due to issues. It was removed from most wikis on Tuesday and from test wikis on Thursday. [38]
• Most wikis were slow and then briefly read-only last week due to one of the database servers having a problem. It is now replaced. [39]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 June. It will be on all wikis from 27 June (calendar).

Meetings

• You can watch or join the next Wikimedia Language showcase. It will be about the usage of Machine Translation in Wikimedia projects. The showcase will be on 26 June at 13:00 (UTC). A recording will be kept for later viewing
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 26 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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24 jun 2019 19:30 (CEST)

Nieuwsbrief 83 Wikimedia Nederland

Nieuwsbrief van juni 2019 Wikiproject: Copyright | Nederlandstalige Wikipedia 18 jaar | Een kleine Wikiwereld... Wikiproject: Copyright Kruisbestuiving tussen Wikimedia en iNaturalist Wiki goes Caribbean schrijfmiddag over Eten & Drinken Een kleine Wikiwereld Nederlandstalige Wikipedia 18 jaar 6 juli 2019 - Brainstorm Jaarplan 2020 Schrijven voor Gendergap Collectie Centsprenten van de KB toegevoegd aan Wikimedia Commons ZomerBBQ Zien we jou in juli? Oude versies vindt u hier

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The Signpost: 30 June 2019

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Discussion report: A constitutional crisis hits English Wikipedia

• News and notes: Mysterious ban, admin resignations, Wikimedia Thailand rising

• In the media: The disinformation age

• On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

• Special report: Did Fram harass other editors?

• Traffic report: Juneteenth, Beauty Revealed, and more nuclear disasters

• Technology report: Actors and Bots

• Gallery: Unlike the North Face, Wiki Loves Earth

• Recent research: What do editors do after being blocked?; the top mathematicians, universities and cancers according to Wikipedia

• From the archives: Women and Wikipedia: the world is watching

• Opinion: Why the Terms of Use change didn't curtail undisclosed paid editing—and what might

• In focus: WikiJournals: A sister project proposal

• Community view: A CEO biography, paid for with taxes

• Op-Ed: 2019 Wikimedia Affiliate Selected Board Seats Election Results

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Wikidata weekly summary #371

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

• Events
  • Upcoming: July 3rd: UGent Wikidata and Wikibase Workshop 2019
  • Upcoming: OSM TW x Wikidata TW Meetup, June 3rd, Taipei, Taiwan - Facebook event
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XVII in São Paulo, Brazil, July 11th
  • Upcoming: Inventaire & OpenData Week 2019 in Wurzen, Germany, July 18th-25th
  • State of the Map 2019: early bird tickets are available until July 7th. The program will include a Wikidata workshop

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Placing EveryPolitician on hold by MySociety ("it's clear that Wikidata should be the natural global home for this type of data")
  • Celebrity Profiling by Matti Wiegmann et al.,
  • Published in ArXiv:
    • DocRED: A Large-Scale Document-Level Relation Extraction Dataset by Yuan Yao et al.
    • ConTrOn: Continuously Trained Ontology based on Technical Data Sheets and Wikidata by Kobkaew Opasjumruskit et al.
  • Wikidata as opportunity for special collections: the 20th Century Press Archives use case. Presentation at LIBER 2019 (LOD working group of the Association of European Research Libraries), by Joachim Neubert

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Wikibase community Telegram group has been recreated, here's the invitation link

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: LilyPond notation, target muscle, historical region, writing language, match interval, microarchitecture, literacy rate, era name, seconded by, moved by
    • External identifiers: MELPA package ID, Nchdb asset ID, National Film Board of Canada director identifier, Fundamental.org Baptist Church ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts artist ID, Beatport artist ID, Bangladesh administrative division code (2017-), Djshop artist ID, NeoGeoSoft ID, New York City Neighborhood Tabulation area ID, NicoNicoPedia, NooSFere edition ID, ArtBrokerage artist ID, ATRF ID, Bebo profile ID, National Library of Aruba ID, BVLarramendi ID, Cameo ID, Charts in France artist ID, CIN ID, Dutch Charts artist ID, Equipboard artist ID, Facebook Gaming game ID, Gaana.com artist ID, Gambay ID, Heritage Gazetteer of Cyprus, Historical Archives of the European Union ID, hitparade.ch artist ID, Indian gallantry awardee ID, Juno Download artist ID, MangaSeek person ID, Metro topic ID, Moov artist ID, Murfie artist ID, Musicalics composer ID, Nederlandse Top 40 artist ID, NME artist ID, PCE Daisakusen ID, CUT code, Pro Football Hall of Fame ID, Repology project name, Rogerebert.com film ID, SA Flora ID, Syriac Biographical Dictionary ID, The DJ List artist ID, Who's Who of American Comic Books ID, SNBP ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: double major, Poster, Throwing handedness, Batting handedness, Institut-ID in der Unternehmensdatenbank der BaFin, Wolfram Language unit code, National Transportation Safety Board report, enemy of, PHI Latin Texts author ID, default description for instances
    • External identifiers: ACNP journal ID, Personnel de l'administration préfectorale ID, Bursa Malaysia stock code, etrain.info station ID, Rupa Publications author ID, Pro Kabaddi League player ID, OYO Hotel ID, Anime Characters Database, IMFDB work ID, Australian Faunal Directory publication ID, Ident.Nr., Sverigetopplistan artist ID, Musiikkituottajat artist ID, Radio Courtoisie show ID, Biyografya ID
  • Query examples:
    • Nouns without grammatical gender in a chosen language (source)
    • Current UK Members of Parliament ranked by number of Wikimedia sitelinks (source)
  • Architectural drawings depicting cathedrals in France (source)
    • Music bands named after Tolkien's universe, by genre (source)
  • Newest database reports: education by country

• Development
  • More work on preparing the technical setup for Wikidata Bridge development
  • Implement Feature Flag for Wikidata Bridge (phab:T225935)
  • Discuss the best way to connect template parameter to corresponding Wikidata property (phab:T224832)
  • Improve the documentation for Wikibase sites setup (phab:T218282)
  • Prepare the last steps for reading from new term store implementation (phab:T225603) according to the migration plan (phab:T221765)
  • Fixed a bug and reduced significantly the amount of addUsagesForPage jobs in our jobs queue (phab:T205045)
  • Removed feature flag for the bugfix for wbeditentity setting aliases to empty array (phab:T223305)
  • Decreased EntityUsageTable addUsage batch size to 100 (phab:T225500)
  • Configured query service lag for Wikidata maxlag (phab:T222193)
  • Helped fixing an issue with moving files on Commons (phab:T226672)

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
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • 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: 2019-27

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

• The development of Wikidata Bridge has started. The goal is to allow Wikidata edits from Wikipedia. [40]

Problems

• Sometimes pages load slowly for users routed to the Amsterdam data center. Investigation is in progress. [41]
• Wikidata query service was overloaded between 11:50 UTC until 13:15 UTC on June 24. It has been fixed. [42]

Changes later this week

• You will be able to read but not to edit all wikis for a short amount of time, on 3 July at 06:00 (UTC). This is to move a database. [43]
• There is no deployment of a new version of MediaWiki on the wikis this week (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 3 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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1 jul 2019 23:23 (CEST)

This Month in Education: June 2019

This Month in Education Volume 8 • Issue 6 • June 2019 Contents • Headlines • Subscribe In This Issue The introduction of the Wikipedia into the educational program has expanded Welcome Vasanthi to the Education Team! Wikimedia Education SAARC Conference happening in India "Won't somebody please think of the children?" The first Annual Report of VVIT WikiConnect An effective collaboration of WikiClubs and schools Wikiclassroom: New way for students' inspiration Wikipedia as a classroom activity kicks off in Kosovo

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Wikidata weekly summary #372

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: ZI Jony

• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, Tuesday, June 16th, at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time), on the #wikimedia-office channel
  • Past: Celtic Knot Conference 2019 - minority languages on Wikimedia projects. Slides to be added in the Commons category

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • A new Wikidata map and comparison with previous maps, by Addshore
  • The story of building the inteGraality tool at the Wikimedia Hackathon, by JeanFred
  • Des identifiants ouverts pour la science ouverte by the Comité pour la Science ouverte (Open Science Committee), June 2019. Extract: "Since 2012, the Wikidata database has gradually become the global point of convergence for open identifiers." (Depuis 2012, la base Wikidata est devenue progressivement le point de convergence mondial des identifiants ouverts.)
  • Lydia Pintscher submitted a chapter for the collaborative book Wikipedia@20, called Wikidata - Wikipedia’s not so little sister is finding its own way. Feel free to have a look, review is open until July 19th
  • You can also check out Denny Vrandečić's submission about Abstract Wikipedia and Wikidata

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Because of a server switch, Wikidata will be in read-only mode on July 30th from 05:00 to 05:30 AM UTC (phab:T227063)
  • Change in the name pattern of new Wikidata RDF dumps: starting on July 15th, dumps will have a new name format (phab:T226153)
  • Reminder for tool builders: Python tools should use a user-agent to access the Query Service. If you recently encountered issues with the Query Service, please check that your tool is compliant to m:User-Agent policy.
  • New user script for lexicographical data to add Forms on Lexemes that don't have any, by suggesting and filling out templates

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: animator, video system, announcement date, access status, literary motif, review of, middle family name
    • External identifiers: FPBR person ID, PHI Latin Texts author ID, VG-lista artist ID, Bloodhound ID, Steam profile ID, Find & Connect ID, Goodreads series ID, Scandipop topic id, 2014 Commonwealth Games ID, El portal de Música artist ID, Balochistan Education Management Information System code, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Education Management Information System code, Punjab Education Management Information System code, Sindh Education Management Information System code, IMVDb artist ID, Institute-id in the BaFin company database, Musiikkituottajat artist (certyfication) ID, IFPI Austria artist ID, IFPI Danmark artist ID, SNEP artist ID, hitparade.ch artist (certyfication) ID, BVMI artist ID, Music Canada artist ID, IFPI Norge artist ID, Napster artist ID, Personnel de l'administration préfectorale ID, RBF professional boxer ID, Retrosheet ID, SLNSW unpublished item ID, LB.ua dossier ID, ACNP journal ID, Australian Faunal Directory publication ID, Sverigetopplistan artist ID, Rupa Publications author ID, OYO Hotel ID, Hungarian National Namespace place ID, Hungarian National Namespace person ID, Hungarian National Namespace organisation ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: catalogue raisonné, Wikia Article URL 2, Wikispecies template for this work, imprimatur, periphrasis, terms of service, privacy policy, Musisque Deoque author ID, SAR Value, IAAF competition category, Academic rank, MPG ID, newspaper archive, unabbreviated text, identifiant Q-Codes, ft.dk politician identifier
    • External identifiers: Biyografya ID, Magazine in BitArkivo.org, PharmGKB ID, World Encyclopedia of Puppetry Arts ID, identifiant Missions étrangères de Paris, DigitalNZ ID, Handball123 player ID, ScOT ID, Atlas of Living Australia ID, номер российской организации, AtlasFor ID, Repertorium van ambtsdragers en ambtenaren id, Adventure Gamers ID, Bebo profile numeric ID, MovieLens ID, WikiApiary, Scribd Book ID, Penguin India author ID, Spanish Catalogued Heritage
  • Query examples:
    • 762 people made edits on lexicographical data, 571 created at least one Lexeme (source)
    • Map with percentage of Welsh speakers in the regions of Wales (source)
    • Publication dates of works used as usage example for Swedish Lexemes (source)
    • Ratios of male/female organizers and speakers at conferences (source)
    • World map of sign languages by country (source)
    • Number of punk bands from Indonesia by region (source)
    • Map of World Heritage places in Europe (source)
    • Map of parishes of New South Wales, Australia, colour-coded by county (source)
  • Newest database reports: Glasnevin Cemetery, Mount Jerome Cemetery

• Development
  • Enabled JSONLD support for entity data (example)
  • Fixed JSON dump issue (phabricator:T226601)
  • Readded qualifier hashes in JSON output that accidentally got lost (phabricator:T227207)
  • Made sure changes on Entity Schema pages by autoconfirmed users are autopatrolled (phabricator:T224495)
  • Looked into issues with partial blocking on Wikidata entities (phabricator:T207893)
  • Adding MediaInfo as an entity type that can be used in the "allowed entity types"-constraint (phabricator:T224362)
  • Investigating an issue with the tours on Wikidata (phabricator:T223999)
  • Initial work for the edit dialog that is needed for editing of Wikidata's data from Wikipedia (Wikidata Bridge)

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
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • 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: 2019-28

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

• For event organizers, if you request a temporary lift of the IP cap for mass account creation, this will now also raise the edit rate limit for those new accounts at the event, which will prevent another bottleneck. [44]
• Administrators at all Wiktionary, Wikivoyage, and Wikisource wikis are now able to use the new partial blocks feature. [45]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 July. It will be on all wikis from 11 July (calendar).
• The design of MediaWiki's software windows will change for desktop users. Layout will be simpler, buttons will be bolder and clearer, and close buttons will be just icons. This is like the mobile design. This will affect ContentTranslation, VisualEditor, TemplateWizard, and other tools. [46]

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Wikidata will be in read-only mode on 30 July from 05:00 to 05:30 UTC because of a server switch. [47]
• There will be a change in the name format of new Wikidata RDF dumps starting on 15 July. [48]

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8 jul 2019 22:13 (CEST)

This Month in GLAM: June 2019

This Month in GLAM – Volume IX, Issue VI, June 2019 Headlines Armenia report: Third round of cooperation with Hovhannes Toumanian Museum Australia report: Toodyaypedia, City of Canning, WoW2019, and the Pilbara Brazil report: Partnership with Football Museum brings visibility to entries about women’s soccer on Wikipedia Côte d'Ivoire report: #1Lib1Ref edit-athons and restrospective of +190 articles improved France report: Regular workshops Indonesia report: Introduction to Wikimedia Commons and Structured data Mexico report: Wiki Loves Mexico Netherlands report: Image donation; Wiki goes Caribbean meeting on slavery and plantations in Suriname; Dutch open public library data; Field study collaboration Wikimedia and Libraries Norway report: The International Year of Indigenous Languages 2019 Poland report: Documentary photographs from National Archives and WikiPlato Serbia report: Continuation of residences Sweden report: Wikidata imports; Data roundtripping project UK report: Oxford and Coventry Updates USA report: LGBTQ+ Pride Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: Development updates; GLAM focus area at the Wikimania Hackathon Wikidata report: Want new tools? We've got 'em! Calendar: July'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.

About This Month in GLAM · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 10 jul 2019 01:54 (CEST)

Legende op Berlare#Politiek

Dag Romaine,

Op Berlare#Politiek gaat er iets mis. Ik heb het even bekeken maar ik zie het niet direct. Kan jij zien wat er mis is?

Met vriendelijke groeten, 4ever_(Overleg) 10 jul 2019 22:17 (CEST)

Goeidag Romaine...

Je voudrais rejoindre le collectif wikipedia belgique et participez au projet monument à Bruxelles dont je suis originaire et ou j'ai établi mon domicile depuis 39 ans. J'aimerais également apporté ma contribution au projet festival théatre.

Merci de m'indiquer les formalités d'usage.

Bien à vous

Olmo Carniselli.

Het plaatsen van foto’s met onbekende fotograaf

Geachte Romaine, Onlangs heb ik een artikel over Willem Schweitzer op Wikipedia geplaatst. Nu heb ik de beschikking over een aardige portretfoto van deze man. Deze foto komt uit het archief van de Stichting Eygelshoven Door De Eeuwen Heen (SEDDEH). Probleem: men weet niet wie de foto genomen heeft. Vraag: kan de foto misschien toch geplaatst worden, met verwijzing naar genoemde Stichting?

Een andere geschikte foto komt uit het Limburgsch Dagblad van 27-06-1949. De foto is genomen bij gelegenheid van Schweizers benoeming tot Ridder in de orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw. De krant vermeldt geen fotograaf (zoals destijds gebruikelijk was). Vraag: is het voldoende om alleen de bron te noemen?

Graag uw advies. Met dank bij voorbaat,

John Smeets john (overleg) 12 jul 2019 16:32 (CEST)

Tech News: 2019-29

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

• The mobile web will get more advanced editing tools. Seven more Wikipedias can use them now. This works for Arabic, Indonesian, Italian, Persian, Japanese, Spanish and Thai Wikipedia. You can try the tools on the mobile web and give feedback. [49]

Changes later this week

• The abuse filter system user will soon do maintenance edits on broken abuse filters. This user is called Filter and has administrator rights. This is meant to fix technical problems. It will not do any other changes. You can read more.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 July. It will be on all wikis from 18 July (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikipedia app for Android will invite users to add image captions to images on Commons. It will only invite users who have added a number of edits in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. You can read more and leave feedback. [50]

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15 jul 2019 17:30 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #373

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

• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, Tuesday, July 16th, at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time), on the #wikimedia-office channel
  • Upcoming: Next LD4-Wikidata Affinity Group Meeting on July 16th
  • Upcoming: Structured Data on Commons IRC office hour for "other statements" on 18 July, 17:00-18:00 UTC on the #wikimedia-office channel
  • Upcoming: The Wikidata Menu Challenge - Wikimania 2019 edition starts July 16 and goes on until August 11.

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • An International Knowledge Base for all Heritage Institutions by Giovanna Fontenelle and Beat Estermann on SocietyByte
  • How to estimate completeness of classes in Wikidata by Michael Luggen et. al. on SocietyByte
  • Videos of the presentations given during the Wikidata + OSM workshop in London

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Structured Data on Commons: RDF output for MediaInfo is now available (example)
  • Edits with the tag #suggestededit-add 1.0 come from the suggested edit feature on Wikipedia's Android app: see the FAQ for more information
  • Property number 7000: DigitalNZ ID is live. This data aggregator has over 30 million records. The proposal was the first from Ambrosia10, a New Zealand editor.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: IMFDB work ID, Pro Kabaddi League player ID, RBF amateur boxer ID, National Transportation Safety Board report ID, Epitafier.se ID, magazine in BitArkivo.org, iTunes movie collection ID, Musisque Deoque author ID, DigitalNZ ID, PharmGKB ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Perseus ID, TuttoCalciatori.Net player ID, TuttoCalciatori.Net coach ID, Typing discipline, video game mod, Arachne collection ID, NOTAM, begin and end of covered period ; covered period, periphrasis, Kerala state school code, The Latin Library author ID, type code, FEC campaign committee id, Documenta Catholica Omnia author ID, Ex æquo with, EU Publication office ID, Supreme Court docket number
    • External identifiers: National Library of Luxembourg ID, Lebanese National Library ID, National Library of Morocco ID, National Library of Iceland ID, Syriaca person ID, Syriaca work ID, Flemish Public Libraries ID, National Library of Russia ID, National Library of Chile ID, ACMI ID, Australian Suppliers Directory ID, Hazardous Chemical Information System ID, ANZCTR ID, National Pollutant Inventory ID, AICS Chemical ID, PBS Manufacturer ID, PBS Drug Code, BIC of the Canary Islands ID, Arachne object ID, Gotlands museum, Indian Super League player ID, Premier Badminton League player ID, Colonial Frontier Massacres ID, TheTVDB episode ID, Album of the Year artist ID, Album of the Year album ID, HOV-ID, Nosdéputés.fr identifiant, TikTok username, NosSénateurs.fr identifiant, eBay username, Jaxsta profile ID, Jaxsta release ID, Jaxsta recording ID, Musixmatch writer ID
  • Query examples:
    • places in Canada with no English label
    • Languages having the most usage examples in Wikidata's lexicographical data (source)
    • Map of places of residence of accused witches in Scotland, colour-coded by gender (source)
    • Symphonies written by Camille Saint-Saëns (source)

• Development
  • Create docker image for wdqs version 0.3.2 (phab:T226939)
  • Fix an issue with JSON output lacking qualifier hashes (phab:T227207)
  • Track number of links to schema pages (phab:T218903)
  • Disable Wikidata sitelinks in ProofreadPage namespaces (thanks to Matěj Suchánek) (phab:T227201)
  • Fix a cache issue with the language of the "check entities against this schema" link (phab:T224594)
  • Add EntitySchema extension to wikibase-docker bundle image (phab:T226152)
  • Enable JSON-LD support for Wikidata (phab:T220696)
  • Add baserevid to WikibaseLexeme API module (phab:T225073)
  • Extracting (and logging) Data Bridge parameters from edit links (phab:T226994)
  • Opening a modal with edit this link information (phab:T226996)
  • Showing the current Wikidata value in edit modal (phab:T226997)
  • Disabling interactive elements while saving on mobile termbox (phab:T222886)

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
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • 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 · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15 jul 2019 17:37 (CEST)

Structured Data on Commons - IRC office hours this week, 18 July

The Structured Data team is hosting an IRC office hour this week on Thursday, 18 July, from 17:00-18:00 UTC. Joining information as well as date and time conversion is available on Meta. Potential topics for discussion are the testing of "other statements", properties that may need to be created for Commons on Wikidata soon, plans for the rest of SDC development, or whatever you might want to discuss. The development team looks forward to seeing you there. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 16 jul 2019 20:51 (CEST)