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Mismatch Finder, the tool that lets you review mismatches between the data in Wikidata and other databases, is now ready to be used for checking potential mismatches and uploading lists of new potential mismatches.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations are available.
Mentors using the
Growth Mentor dashboard will now see newcomers assigned to them who have made at least one edit, up to 200 edits. Previously, all newcomers assigned to the mentor were visible on the dashboard, even ones without any edit or ones who made hundred of edits. Mentors can still change these values using the filters on their dashboard. Also, the last choice of filters will now be saved.
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The user group oversight was renamed suppress. This is for
technical reasons. You may need to update any local references to the old name, e.g. gadgets, links to Special:Listusers, or uses of
NUMBERINGROUP.
Problems
The recent change to the HTML of
tracking changes pages caused some problems for screenreaders. This is being fixed.
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Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 March. It will be on all wikis from 3 March (
calendar).
Future changes
Working with templates will become easier.
Several improvements are planned for March 9 on most wikis and on March 16 on English Wikipedia. The improvements include: Bracket matching, syntax highlighting colors, finding and inserting templates, and related visual editor features.
If you are a template developer or an interface administrator, and you are intentionally overriding or using the default CSS styles of user feedback boxes (the classes: successbox, messagebox, errorbox, warningbox), please note that these classes and associated CSS will soon be removed from MediaWiki core. This is to prevent problems when the same class-names are also used on a wiki. Please let us know by commenting at
phab:T300314 if you think you might be affected.
A RfC is open to discuss prohibiting draftification of articles over 90 days old.
Technical news
The deployment of the reply tool as an opt-out feature, as announced in last month's newsletter, has been delayed to 7 March. Feedback and comments are being welcomed at
Wikipedia talk:Talk pages project. (
T296645)
And so ends the first round of the
WikiCup. Last year anyone who scored more than zero points moved on to Round 2, but this was not the case this year, and a score of 13 or more was required to proceed. The top scorers in Round 1 were:
Epicgenius, a finalist last year, who led the field with 1906 points, gained from 32 GAs and 19 DYKs, all on the topic of New York buildings.
AryKun, new to the contest, was second with 1588 points, having achieved 2 FAs, 11 GAs and various other submissions, mostly on the subject of birds.
Bloom6132, a WikiCup veteran, was in third place with 682 points, garnered from 51 In the news items and several DYKs.
GhostRiver was close behind with 679 points, gained from achieving 12 GAs, mostly on ice hockey players, and 35 GARs.
Kavyansh.Singh was in fifth place with 551 points, with an FA, a FL, and many reviews.
SounderBruce was next with 454 points, gained from an FA and various other submissions, mostly on United States highways.
Ktin, another WikiCup veteran, was in seventh place with 412 points, mostly gained from In the news items.
These contestants, like all the others who qualified for Round 2, now have to start scoring points again from scratch. Between them, contestants completed reviews of a large number of good articles as the contest ran concurrently with a GAN backlog drive. Well done all! To qualify for Round 3, contestants will need to finish Round 2 among the top thirty-two participants.
Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Anything that should have been claimed for in Round 1 is no longer eligible for points. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on
Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed.
For wishing everyone a Happy Birthday on behalf of the Birthday Committee.
Trulio Drulio (
talk) 19:55, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
Tagging user pages for deletion
Hello CAPTAIN RAJU. I notice that you recently tagged the user page of User:LauraYYork for speedy deleted with reference to speedy deletion criterion U5, the issue seeming to be that the user in question had made few edits outside of user space.
Perhaps you could clarify the reasoning for the tagging and subsequent deletion? Pinging
User:Anthony Bradbury as they carried out the deletion.
Richard Nevell (WMUK) (
talk) 13:27, 4 March 2022 (UTC)
ধন্যবাদ
আপনার সহযোগিতার জন্য ধন্যবাদ। ভাল থাকবেন।--
আরশাদ সোহেল (
talk) 05:54, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
Thank you!
I had forgotten today was my adminship anniversary. What a strange 16 years this has been. Well, the last two years especially! 16 years feels weird to say! Thank you.
Bobo. 11:03, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
Need to know reason for deletion of my page
Hi,
I had crested a page that was to represent an organisation. It was created more as a draft with an intention to edit and complete it later on. However, looks like you did not like the same and recommended to delete the page.
Please share your concerns as to why you recommended so.
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Discussions
New requests for permissions/Bot:
EnvlhBot 3. Task/s: add dictionaries IDs to French lexemes
Closed request for permissions/Bot:
IndoBot (Approved). Task/s: I would like to import all Indonesian schools, more than 100000. The data includes school type, location, and coordinates as well as external identifiers
LIVE Wikidata editing #74 -
YouTube,
Facebook, March 12th at 19:00 UTC
LD4 Wikibase Working Hour. Presentation and discussion: "Introduction to Linked Open Data Strategy with Lea Voget, Head, Product Management WMDE". Lea is not only the team lead of product, project and program managers at WMDE, she is also one of the main thinkers behind the Linked Open Data strategy. When: 11 March 2022, 11AM-12PM Eastern US (
Time zone converter). Registration:
Registration link
Next Linked Data for Libraries
LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Associate Librarian Stacy Allison-Cassin and her students on Wikidata in the classroom.
Agenda
Creating a new item on Wikidata (in Italian) -
YouTube
Connecting Wikidata with OpenStreetMap (in Italian) -
YouTube
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (in French) - YouTube:
1,
2,
3.
Tool of the week
Wikxhibit is a tool that allows anyone, even non-programmers, to create cool presentations of Wikidata, and other sources of data on the web, only using HTML and without any additional programming. Are you interested in creating presentations of Wikidata? We would like to understand your experience with Wikidata to better improve our tool. It would help if you can fill out our survey
https://mit.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cvZKKlRu2S7C9Fk
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Wikidata dumps: Due to technical issues the JSON and RDF dumps for the week of March 1st couldn't be properly generated (
phab:T300255#7746418). The situation is expected to get back to normal this week.
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 some interface labels last week. It will be fixed this week. This change was part of ongoing work to simplify the support for skins which do not have active maintainers.
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Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 March. It will be on all wikis from 10 March (
calendar).
Captain Raju, I do believe I misinterpreted what I was supposed to be writing as it was my first time logging in. I have to chuckle about it but I do apologize.
I am interested in writing of a new bi-product that we recently discovered that I do believe would be an interesting topic of discussion throughout multiple interests.
Is that where I would submit such writings?
Thanks, Wesley
Wesyeats (
talk) 10:15, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
I see you tagged the IWC Super Indy Championship (I published the article before I was finished) as uncategorized. You are allowed to add categories. You know this. Tagging it as uncategorized is lazy. Mr. C.C.Hey yo!I didn't do it! 00:17, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
Hope you are doing well. As you know CIS-A2K updated the communities every month about their previous work through the Newsletter. This message is about February 2022 Newsletter. In this newsletter, we have mentioned our conducted events, ongoing events and upcoming events.
Data Reuse Days, on March 14-24: you can select the sessions you'd like to join among the many presentations, workshops and discussions
in the schedule. You can also look at
a selection of sessions based on your areas of interest.
LIVE Wikidata editing #75 -
YouTube,
Facebook, March 19th at 19:00 UTC
Mismatch Finder: Discussing the next batches of potential mismatches with MusicBrainz data and some remaining Freebase data
Lexicographical data: Continuing work on the basic version of the new Special:NewLexeme page, focusing on putting in the base data about the new Lexeme
REST API: Continuing coding on the basic version of the GET Item endpoint
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
In the Wikipedia Android app
it is now possible to change the toolbar at the bottom so the tools you use more often are easier to click on. The app now also has a focused reading mode.
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Problems
There was a problem with the collection of some page-view data from June 2021 to January 2022 on all wikis. This means the statistics are incomplete. To help calculate which projects and regions were most affected, relevant datasets are being retained for 30 extra days. You can
read more on Meta-wiki.
There was a problem with the databases on March 10. All wikis were unreachable for logged-in users for 12 minutes. Logged-out users could read pages but could not edit or access uncached content then.
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Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 March. It will be on all wikis from 17 March (
calendar).
Access to
Special:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have deletelogentry and deletedhistory rights through their group memberships. Before, only those with the deleterevision right could access this special page.
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On the
Special:Undelete pages for diffs and revisions, there will be a link back to the main Undelete page with the list of revisions.
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Future changes
The Wikimedia Foundation has announced the IP Masking implementation strategy and next steps. The
announcement can be read here.
The
Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 will take place as a hybrid event on 20-22 May 2022. The Hackathon will be held online and there are grants available to support local in-person meetups around the world. Grants can be requested until 20 March.
All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's
Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person you should be vaccinated and also be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate.
Yeah, This is my first time editing in Wikipedia .
Thank you for your greetings and let me feel comfortable with your words!! 😊❤️️
I will contact with you when I need any help.
সালমান ইসতিয়াক সাব্বির (
talk) 14:29, 20 March 2022 (UTC)
Oscar Tangle deleted. Yes I am in the wrong - new user. Thought user page was mine to explain who I was.
NPool doesn't exist under Tournament Systems and that is what's Notable about it. It is an alternate to the Pools system.
Would of liked experts to ensure that it does exist somewhere under a different name that I can't find.
May come back in couple of years if I've managed to publish it.
Would like to recover the information but I can't message fastily (deletion manager). User error obviously.
I'll hang around for a week to receive messages but then it appears Wikipedia appropriate for me to delete my account.
Would loved to confirm that it already existed or not.
Good Luck
Oscar Tangle
Oscar Tangle (
talk) 06:42, 21 March 2022 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #512
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Discussions
New requests for permissions/Bot:
PodcastBot. Task/s: Upload new podcast episodes, extract: title, part of the series, has quality (explicit episode), full work available at (mp3), production code, apple podcast episode id, spotify episode ID. Regex extraction: talk show guest, recording date (from description)
AradglBot. Task/s: Create between 100,000 and 200,000 new lexemes in Aragonese language Q8765
Closed request for permissions/Bot:
EnvlhBot 3 (approved). Task/s: add dictionaries IDs to French lexemes
Data Reuse Days, on March 14-24: you can select the sessions you'd like to join among the many presentations, workshops and discussions
in the schedule. For a recap of the event so far:
a selection of sessions are recorded, you can find the
videos here or
below
speakers will progressively add their slides in this
Commons category
Cartographier des données de Wikidata avec Umap (in French) -
YouTube
Mapping Einstein Researchers on Wikidata (in Portuguese) -
YouTube
Tool of the week
Linked People project let's you explore the family trees of all known people at Wikipedia/Wikidata.
Gene of the Day (gene-wordle) uses Wikidata for gene names and crafting an answer list by number of sitelinks.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
There are Rapid Grants available for local meetups during the Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 from May 20-May 22.
Apply to host a social for your local community. The deadline to apply is March 27, 2022.
The
proposed config change to remove the changetags right from users – so that they can apply change tags to their own actions as they are made, but not change the tags of other actions after the fact anymore – has been deployed.
Lexicographical data: We're continuing with the work on the new Special:NewLexeme page. We worked on saving a valid new Lexeme with the new page. We are now focusing on the suggesters for language and lexical category so editors can select the right Item for them.
Data Reuse Days: We ran sessions on how to use Wikidata's data programmatically and the best practices around it. Slides and videos are available already (see above).
REST API: Continuing coding on the basic version of the GET Item endpoint. We have the very initial version of the get item endpoint ready and are now adding more parameters to it.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations are available.
New code release schedule for this week
There will be four MediaWiki releases this week, instead of just one. This is an experiment which should lead to fewer problems and to faster feature updates. The releases will be on all wikis, at different times, on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. You can
read more about this project.
The Jupyter notebooks tool
PAWS has been updated to a new interface.
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Future changes
Interactive maps via
Kartographer will soon work on wikis using the
FlaggedRevisions extension.
Please tell us which improvements you want to see in Kartographer. You can take this survey in simple English.
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