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Wikidata weekly summary #409

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • IdentifierInput: when adding identifiers, it lets you paste the full URL, and extracts the ID part
  • Development
    • Fix an issue with the Wikidata dumps (phab:T248612)
    • Migrate to and read from new store for item terms (phab:T219123)
    • Create wb_terms_no_longer_updated to ease the transition to the new tables
    • Bridge: improve the rendering of references (phab:T238661)
    • More work on editing references (phab:T240333)
    • Continue setting up a test system to work on federated properties
    • More research on suggesting references

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This Month in Education: March 2020

This Month in Education

Volume 9 • Issue 3 • March 2020

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Tech News: 2020-14

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

Recent changes

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 April. It will be on all wikis from 2 April (calendar).

Future changes

  • The video player will change to be simpler and more modern. The current beta feature will become the video player for everyone. The old player will be removed. [2]
  • There is a project to make templates easier to use. The next few weeks the developers will present ideas on the project page. You can watch that page if you are interested in giving feedback. [3]

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17:25, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

Relevance of Image on Qantas page.

Hi There, I see you think that there is a need for a picture of a QANTAS 747-400ER on the page. I do not believe that it is relevant as the 747 isn't being retired, it was a rumor. The Facts are QANTAS isn't retiring The 747 therefore this is a random irrelevant picture.--Life200BC (talk) 01:43, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

There is a discussion on the article's talk page. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:04, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
Ok cool. Thanks for your help. --Life200BC (talk) 10:27, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
[ec] I also note that you made eight reverts to that page in the space of under 24 hours. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:29, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
Yes , I know i was crucified by an administrator for that. I was attempting to stop people spreading fake news on an encyclopedic page. Furthermore, I apologise if I may have seemed agressive in my removal of your image, as I can see how you may have thought that it was relavent. --Life200BC (talk) 10:41, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
There was no "fake news". You have yet to restore the image. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:43, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
You've also referred, on your talk page, to my edits as "vandalism". That's an outrageous slur. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:46, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
The caption was speculative and not supported by a reliable source. I also don't believe that the image is relevant to the page. However, if this does turn out to be the last commercial flight of a QANTAS 747, it maybe relevant in the QANTAS history page. Vandalism was not referring to your additional image, it was to the people constantly removing the 747 from fleet statistics, your edit made it clear that it was speculation, however Wikipedia is not a place for speculation--Life200BC (talk) 10:54, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
I've already refuted your first and final point in the discussion on the article's talk page, to which I referred you above. My edits were among those that the administrator warned - mildly, not "crucified" - you about reverting; you responded with your reference to vandalism. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:58, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2020).

Guideline and policy news

  • There is an ongoing request for comment to streamline the source deprecation and blacklisting process.

Technical news

Arbitration

  • Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold a Arbcom RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. A draft RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC (Draft) and not open to comments from the community yet. Interested editors can comment on the RfC itself on its talk page.

Miscellaneous

  • The WMF has begun a pilot report of the pages most visited through various social media platforms to help with anti-vandalism and anti-disinformation efforts. The report is updated daily and will be available through the end of May.
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:00, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

Ceawlin Thynn, 8th Marquess of Bath

With the death of the 7th Marquess, Ceawlin Thynn becomes the 8th Marquess of Bath. Article really needs a decent infobox, similar to that on his father's article. Can you fix this? Mjroots (talk) 12:15, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

Seems to be done already. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:16, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

ITN recognition for Alexander Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath

On 5 April 2020, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Alexander Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Black Kite (talk) 23:21, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #410

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • Scholia highlights the scholarly data in Wikidata, including scholarly works, projects, topics, and individual researchers, including their relationships and statistics. It encourages further enrichment of Wikidata through links on the "missing" pages.
  • Development
    • Working on a first prototype for automated finding references (board)
    • Bridge: improve rendering of references (phab:T238661)
    • Only send incremental changes through the API (phab:T230343)
    • Adding a screen allowing people to go edit the references on Wikidata (phab:T240333)
    • Reducing the size of the extra Javascript that the user has to download for Bridge (phab:T228857)

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.

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Tech News: 2020-15

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

Problems

  • There was a problem with user pages not being shown properly on desktop. This was because of a bug. It will soon be fixed. [4]

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

  • MediaWiki will use a newer version of Unicode. Some characters that did not have an upper case equivalent before do now. Titles beginning with one of these characters will be moved. A list of these titles can be seen on Phabricator. The titles will be renamed by the user Maintenance script. This will start on 13 April 2020. You can rename them before this if you wish and the new title can be different from the one the script would rename it to. [5]

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19:02, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

Handbook of COVID-19 Prevention and Treatment

Hello there. Can I enlist your help? The Handbook of COVID-19 Prevention and Treatment is threatened with deletion. I think it is a worthwhile wikipedia page, and would like your help to save it. Thanks in advance for your time, and thanks for your contribution to Coronavirus Tech Handbook Magnovvig (talk) 18:12, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

Desktop improvements prototype

Hello, Pigsonthewing!

Exploration of the Unknown
I hereby award you the Exploration of the Unknown award! You are being recognized for your courage and willingness to test a feature, gadget, or tool in development and for the constructive feedback you provided.


Thanks for taking the time to participate in the user feedback round for our desktop improvements prototype. This feedback is super valuable to us and is currently being used to determine our next steps. We have published a report gathering the main takeaways from the feedback and highlighting the changes we’ll make based on this feedback. Please take a look and give us your thoughts on the talk page of the report. To learn more about the project overall and the other features we’re planning on building in the future, check out the main project page.

SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 17:59, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: March 2020



Headlines
  • Australia report: Know My Name; Public libraries of Queensland join Wikidata
  • Colombia report: Gender gap, Wikipedia and Libraries from the GLAM team
  • France report: WikiGoths; WikiTopia Archives
  • Indonesia report: Volunteers' meet-up; Wiki Cinta Budaya 2020 structured data edit-a-thon
  • Ireland report: Video tutorials; Celtic Knot Conference 2020
  • Kosovo report: WoALUG and NGO Germin call Albanian Diaspora to contribute to Wikipedia
  • Netherlands report: Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen contributes to Wikimedia Commons again; Student research on GLAM-Wiki at Erasmus University Rotterdam
  • Serbia report: March Highlights - Everything is postponed
  • Sweden report: FindingGLAMs; Wikipedia in libraries; Art from the Thiel Gallery Collections; Kulturhistoria som gymnasiearbete
  • UK report: Colourful Kimonos from Khalili
  • USA report: Women & Editing in the time of virus
  • Special story: COVID-19
  • Wikidata report: Lockdown Levellings
  • WMF GLAM report: Mapping GLAM-Wiki collaborations
  • Calendar: April's GLAM events
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Happy Easter

or: the resurrection of loving-kindness --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:43, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXVIII, April 2020

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Tech News: 2020-16

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

Recent changes

Problems

  • There was a problem with the Wikidata database last week. Some wikis went down for twenty minutes. Wikidata and other projects showed error messages. Interwiki links were not shown, some tools did not work and other problems. Some of this was fixed quickly. The developers are working on fixing the rest. [10][11][12]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 15. It will be on all wikis from April 16 (calendar).

Future changes

  • Some graphs have not worked on mobile. This will soon be fixed. [13]
  • The article tab on talk pages of redirects links to the target of the redirect. It could link to the redirect page itself instead. You can leave feedback on this.
  • For pages using syntax highlighting, the use of the deprecated <source> tag, as well as the use of the deprecated enclose parameter, will add tracking categories.

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15:30, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #411

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • COVID19 Dashboard is a Wikidata-powered one-stop information/visualization service for COVID19-related topics such as COVID19's outbreak map, deaths, symptoms, taxonomy, and publications.
  • Development
    • Move wb_terms data in cloud replicas to wb_terms_no_longer_updated (phab:T248592)
    • Rebuild wb_items_per_site, after incident where wb_items_per_site was dropped (phab:T249596)
    • Purge / Reject client pages that were cached in parser cache during the incident (phab:T249595)
    • More work on Automated finding references
    • More work on federated properties: create and save a statement with federated properties
    • Bridge: improve the generic error screen (phab:T241126) and on save (phab:T248087)

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.

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File mover granted

Hello Pigsonthewing. Your account has been granted the "filemover" user right, either following a request for it or due to a clear need for the ability to move files. Please take a moment to review Wikipedia:File mover for more information on this user right and under what circumstances it is okay to move files. When you move a file please remember to update any links to the new name as well! If you do not want the file mover right anymore, just let me know, and I'll remove it. Thank you, and happy editing! ~Swarm~ {sting} 00:40, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

Smirnov

Hard to say how impressed I am by the list of his works! Which one would you recommend for a composition article? One of those written "in memory", perhaps? ... cantata Song of Songs? ... one of the Blake-inspired works? - He'd deserve it. - I need to interrupt work on his article, - the All-CAPs in the recordings need to go, and more references added (teaching, conductors ...). Anybody can do that ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:06, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

I regret that I'm not familiar with his works; something I intend to rectify. I have a browser plugin that makes it easy to fix text case issues, so that's done. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:21, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
Thank you. I'll look myself then, perhaps "Compositions based on Blake". - Can you add one of the sources in Russian to the article, for his death? I can't tell which. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:59, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
Seems to have been done already. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:58, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
Yes, seen. - I managed a bit more, but now really need a break ;) - a bit chilling: not only was he born the same day (2 Nov) as a composer you met, also composed a piece with the same title, "Between Scilla and Charybdis", one for string orchestra, the other for string quartet. I'd love o get rid of the "laundry list" of conductors, by integrating them to where music is performed, - another day, probably. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:19, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
Another thing they have in common: a favourable CD review by Hubert Culot. Feel free to add prose from it, and a concert review. Bedtime for me. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:55, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
I decided on his Triple Concerto No. 2 for violin, harp and double bass, to be written on 22 April, the birthday of a double bass player I know well, pictured in an ext link here. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:58, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

Similar templates

Template:Infobox CFL biography and Template:Infobox NFL biography. Why aren't they the same?-107.242.113.52 (talk) 00:29, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

Because no-one has nominated them for merging. You can do that. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:32, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
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