Lexico Days 2024 is coming up. June 28 - 30, there will be a packed programme of presentations, discussions and workshops on Lexicographical data. This is an online event.
Diff Blog: Why Wikimedia (and Wikidata) is an antidote to disinformation - Wiki Movimento Brasil discuss how Wikidata has equipped researchers, activists and the public the ability to safeguard truths about human rights abuses during the civic-military Brazilian dictatorship between 1964 - 1985.
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20 Years of WMDE - scroll down the timeline and see what Wikimedia Deutschland has done in its 20 years of existence!
Papers
Linking Named Entities in Diderot's Encyclopédie to Wikidata - This paper describes the annotation of more than 10,300 of the Encyclopédie entries with Wikidata identifiers enabling them to be connect to the graph of structured data. By Piere Nugues.
Towards a linking between WordNet and Wikidata - The authors propose linking the 2 described reosurces through hapax legomenon and natural language processing techniques to create new connections and uses. By J. McCrae & D. Cillessen.
What is Wikidata? How to use Wikidata? - Asaf Bartov hosts this informative session on Wikidata at the Wikimania Singapore 2023. If you're attending Wikimania 2024, this session will prepare you for other Wikidata-related sessions.
Creating a Lexeme Database from Scratch - The runup to Wikimania Katowice has begun. Refresh yourself for upcoming sessions with this Wikidata basics workshop hosted by Leon Liesener.
Music mood (qualifier carrying an emotion (mood) relevant to an audio recording (musical or not))
ecosystem type (type of ecosystem that the item represents)
construction time (Construction time refers to the time which was needed to build a certain building, which sometimes took more than one year, especially in former times)
ARS3D - statements and properties for an African Red Slip ware 3D artifact data model.
WikiProject Highlights:
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Theorie und Praxis in Wikidata -
User:Matthiasb uses examples of Highway intersection classification on Wikidata of locations in and around Berlin to highlight inconsistencies between the data model and legal classification. By highlighting a considerable number of differences in a relatively small geographic area, these comments provide further context on an earlier discussion within the German Wikipedia community on integrating Wikidata further into Wikipedia articles.
Newest
database reports:
Badge Stats - How are badges being applied in Wikidata, which items have the most Good or Featured Articles? Savvy editors can use this to enrich said articles in their own Wiki.
Showcase Items:
Mordor - A desolate volcanic plain of nauseous gases and shadows. J.R.R Tolkien's blighted land is this week's showcase.
Showcase Lexemes:
вода - A Russian word for a clear, vitality-giving liquid, of course it's Water.
Development
EntitySchemas: We are preparing for the rollout of the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements.
Wikibase REST API:
We are continuing the work on the route for modifying an Item (
phab:T342993)
We are working on improving errors and error messages in the API
Query Service UI: We fixed a bug. The example dialog was empty and not showing any examples (
phab:T366871)
We changed the datatype of two Properties to external ID as requested (
phab:T367174)
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
People who attempt to add an external link in the visual editor will now receive immediate feedback if they attempt to link to a domain that a project has decided to block. Please see
Edit check for more details.
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The dark mode
beta feature is now available on category and help pages, as well as more special pages. There may be contrast issues. Please report bugs on the
project talk page.
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Problems
Cloud Services tools were not available for 25 minutes last week. This was caused by a faulty hardware cable in the data center.
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Last week, styling updates were made to the Vector 2022 skin. This caused unforeseen issues with templates, hatnotes, and images. Changes to templates and hatnotes were reverted. Most issues with images were fixed. If you still see any,
report them here.
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Changes later this week
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).
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Starting June 18, the
Reference Edit Check will be deployed to
a new set of Wikipedias. This feature is intended to help newcomers and to assist edit-patrollers by inviting people who are adding new content to a Wikipedia article to add a citation when they do not do so themselves. During
a test at 11 wikis, the number of citations added
more than doubled when Reference Check was shown to people. Reference Check is
community configurable.
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Mailing lists will be unavailable for roughly two hours on Tuesday 10:00–12:00 UTC. This is to enable migration to a new server and upgrade its software.
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-06-24. Please help
Translate.
Upcoming:
Lexicodays, online event dedicated to Lexemes on Wikidata, will take place on June 28-30. It takes place across time zone and both in English and Indonesian. Check the program and find the access links on the event page.
Wikidata in Prometheus - Prometheus is a non-commercial image archive for art and cultural studies. It hosts images from a variety of image and media databases and now works can be connected with Wikidata.
New
Mix'n'match feature: For lists of (full or auto) matches where both the MnM entry and the Wikidata Item have coordinates, it now shows the distance between them in the description. (
source)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
The Wikidata development team at Wikimedia Deutschland is planning a brief survey to understand the various ways people contribute to the project and identify user contribution patterns. A request has been made for a CentralNotice banner to deploy the survey to a broad audience. Your feedback, comments, and questions on this request are welcome:
m:CentralNotice/Request/Wikidata Community Survey 2024
The second iteration of the
Wikidata:Open Online Course will begin from July 1 until August 11. Whether you're a beginner taking your first steps, an individual in need of a refresher on Wikidata concepts, or a seasoned trainer looking to level up your skills - this course is right for you.
Multilingualism - organizes work around achieving 100% Wikidata multilingualism for every language with MediaWiki internationalization support. It is initiated, developed & supported by Wikimedia Language Diversity community volunteers.
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
Editors will notice that there have been some changes to the background color of text in the diff view, and the color of the byte-change numbers, last week. These changes are intended to make text more readable in both light mode and dark mode, and are part of a larger effort to increase accessibility. You can share your comments or questions
on the project talkpage.
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The text colors that are used for visited-links, hovered-links, and active-links, were also slightly changed last week to improve their accessibility in both light mode and dark mode.
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Problems
You can
copy permanent links to talk page comments by clicking on a comment's timestamp.
This feature did not always work when the topic title was very long and the link was used as a wikitext link. This has been fixed. Thanks to Lofhi for submitting the bug.
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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).
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Starting 26 June, all talk pages messages' timestamps will become a link at English Wikipedia, making this feature available for you to use at all wikis. This link is a permanent link to the comment. It allows users to find the comment they were linked to, even if this comment has since been moved elsewhere. You can read more about this feature
on Diff or
on Mediawiki.org.
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