This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the
current talk page.
A
request for comment is open that proposes a process for the community to revoke administrative permissions. This follows a
2019 RfC in favor of creating one such a policy.
A
request for comment is in progress to remove
F7 (invalid fair-use claim)
subcriterion a, which covers immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
A
request for comment asks if sysops may place the General sanctions/Coronavirus disease 2019 editnotice template on pages in scope that do not have page-specific sanctions?
When blocking an IPv6 address with
Twinkle, there is now a checkbox with the option to
just block the /64 range. When doing so, you can still leave a block template on the initial, single IP address' talkpage.
When protecting a page with Twinkle, you can now add a note if doing so was in response to a request at
WP:RfPP, and even link to the specific revision.
By
motion, the
discretionary sanctions originally authorized under the
GamerGate case are
now authorized under a new
Gender and sexuality case, with sanctions authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, any gender-related dispute or controversy and associated people. Sanctions issued under GamerGate are now considered Gender and sexuality sanctions.
Hello. I noticed that you
edited your preliminary statement on a closed case. I have reverted you for two reasons. The closed case pages should not be edited by anyone except clerks and arbitrators, and secondly because the preliminary statements on the case page are verbatim copies which are considered an archive of the case request statements. This means that, as mentioned on the page, "they should never be changed". Please refrain from in future editing closed case pages and if you need to make the edit ask on the talk page or ask a clerk about the edit before making it.
Dreamy Jazztalk to me | my contributions 22:45, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
[ you don't need to ping me on my own talk page]. I've read WP:IAR several times, and can't find that clause anywhere in it. Perhaps you could point it out to me? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing);
Talk to Andy;
Andy's edits 13:18, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
Archives are archives for a reason. They exist to store what was said, and once they are closed they shouldn't be edited unless the change is really needed. This is similar to saying, I made a typo in a closed RfC from nearly 8 years ago, so I'm just going to go and edit it.
Dreamy Jazztalk to me | my contributions 13:20, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
And the reason that I don't think IAR applies is how is modifying archived closed discussions to fix a minor typo from 8 years ago "improving or maintaining Wikipedia"?
Dreamy Jazztalk to me | my contributions 13:26, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
[ec] So the clause is not in WP:IAR. Please cease trying to invent rules. Your analogy is fundamentally flawed: simple typos such as this should equally be corrected in RfCs. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing);
Talk to Andy;
Andy's edits 13:28, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
Hello from the birds! --
AnneJerry (
talk) 11:21, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
Hello
Thanks for the session. --
Arans9 (
talk) 11:23, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
Not good link text?! How dare you!
Haha, well spotted
here! I don't know what the h*ll I thought I was doing there – probably trying to do what you actually did do to fix it. But thanks very much for sorting out my error. Best wishes
DBaK (
talk) 18:24, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #458
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries
LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: OCLC Research’s CONTENTdm Wikibase data model for pilot project to improve collection discoverability, Tuesday, March 9th.
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Upcoming:
SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, March 9 at 18:00 CET
Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #35 -
YouTube,
Facebook, March 13
"
Giving knowledge back to Wikipedia: Towards a Systematic Approach to Sync Factual Data across Wikipedia, Wikidata and External Data Sources" (by DBPedia)
Fixed an issue where the Property selector is not falling back from language variant to major language (
phab:T272712)
Working on support for editing statements on Senses on Lexemes via wbeditentity (
phab:T199896)
Continuing to work on the
Query Builder and making it possible to query for quantities and dates with it.
Putting finishing touches on a small tool that lets you get the average ORES quality score for a list of Items as well as the individual scores for each of the Items
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
Section translation now works on Bengali Wikipedia. It helps mobile editors translate sections of articles. It will come to more wikis later. The first focus is active wikis with a smaller number of articles. You can
test it and
leave feedback.
When someone links to a Wikipedia article on Twitter this will now show a preview of the article.
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Problems
Many graphs have
JavaScript errors. Graph editors can check their graphs in their browser's developer console after editing.
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Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 March. It will be on all wikis from 11 March (
calendar).
The
New Discussion tool will soon be a new
discussion tools beta feature for on most Wikipedias. The goal is to make it easier to start new discussions.
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Future changes
There will be a number of changes to make it easier to work with templates. Some will come to the first wikis in March. Other changes will come to the first wikis in June. This is both for those who use templates and those who create or maintain them. You can
read more.
Reference Previews will become a default feature on some wikis on 17 March. They will share a setting with
Page Previews. If you prefer the Reference Tooltips or Navigation-Popups gadget you can keep using them. If so Reference Previews won't be shown.
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New JavaScript-based functions will not work in
Internet Explorer 11. This is because Internet Explorer is an old browser that doesn't work with how JavaScript is written today. Everything that works in Internet Explorer 11 today will continue working in Internet Explorer for now. You can
read more.
Plant Humanities Lab is a website you can use to explore the cultural histories of plants and their influence on human societies.
DX Lab Art Index is an interactive database of over 18,000 nineteenth century Australian Artworks by over 2000 artists with links to Wikidata & compiled by volunteers over 10 years.
The new WDQS Streaming Updater is live as of March 15, 2021 on a pre-production test server for feedback. Available at
https://query-preview.wikidata.org/. Release details
here.
Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year - Call for Nominations! The research must be on, about, using data from, and/or of importance to Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons or other Wikimedia projects. Deadline to submit your nomination is no later than 2021-03-22.
Continued working on the
Query Builder and focused on querying for quantity values (
phab:T268942), handling special cases around sub classes for taxons and locations (
phab:T274634) adding tooltips (
phab:T275542) and sharing a visual query (
phab:T272887)
Making changes to how Cognate handles redirects on Wiktionary to make more pages accessible through interwiki links (
phab:T165061)
Creating a dashboard to break down the number of editors by namespace (
phab:T275999)
Finishing support for editing statements on Senses on Lexemes via wbeditentity API module (
phab:T199896)
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
Wikis that are part of the
desktop improvements project can now use a new
search function. The desktop improvements and the new search will come to more wikis later. You can also
test it early.
Editors who put up banners or change site-wide
JavaScript code should use the
client error graph to see that their changes has not caused problems. You can
read more.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 March. It will be on all wikis from 18 March (
calendar).
Future changes
You can add a
newline or
carriage return character to a custom signature if you use a template. There is a proposal to not allow them in the future. This is because they can cause formatting problems.
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You will be able to read but not edit
12 wikis for a short period of time on
23 March at 06:00 (UTC). This could take 30 minutes but will probably be much faster.
You can use
Quarry for
SQL queries to the
Wiki Replicas. Cross-database JOINS will no longer work from 23 March. There will be a new field to specify the database to connect to. If you think this affects you and you need help you can
post on Phabricator or on
Wikitech.
PAWS and other ways to do
SQL queries to the Wiki Replicas will be affected later.
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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
There is a
Wikipedia app for
KaiOS phones. They don't have a touch screen so readers navigate with the phone keys. There is now a
simulator so you can see what it looks like.
You will be able to read but not edit
twelve wikis for a short period of time on
23 March at 06:00 (UTC). This can also affect password changes, logging in to new wikis, global renames and changing or confirming emails. This could take 30 minutes but will probably be much faster.
Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 March. It will be on all wikis from 25 March (
calendar).
Flagged revisions will no longer have multiple tags like "tone" or "depth". It will also only have one tier. This was changed because very few wikis used these features and they make the tool difficult to maintain.
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Gadgets and user scripts can access variables about the current page in JavaScript. In 2015 this was moved from wg* to mw.config. wg* will soon no longer work.
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March 22: Bug triage hour about Lexemes with Lydia Pintscher
March 23: SPARQL querying for Lexemes with Vigneron
March 24: Open discussion in French about Lexemes
March 25: Documentation Q&A with Dan Shick
March 27: Lingua Libre, how you can record words in your language and use them on Wikidata, with Poslovitch
Upcoming: The
next Wikibase live session is
16:00 UTC on Thursday 25 March 2021(Add to calendar). This month we will have a team member from Enslaved.org talk to us briefly about how they are using Linked Open Data (LOD) with the help of Wikibase (due of technical challenges they couldn't join us last time). Everyone is welcome to attend the call.
Upcoming: The
Arctic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference is taking place remotely on June 24-25, and focusing on indigenous and underrepresented languages on the Wikimedia projects. The call for submissions is now open until April 15th, if you want to present something related to Wikidata and languages,
feel free to apply.
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries
LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Members of the EthicsLD Group will be leading a discussion on ethics in linked data, Tuesday, March 23rd.
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Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #37 -
YouTube,
Facebook, March 27
erinnerungshort.de/kap/ is a data and photo research project and map visualization tool with federated license query from Structured Commons, by
Raymond and
Elya.
~7500 person items have been enriched with the new property
GEPRIS person ID (P4872), imported from a high quality dataset from the
Q707283.
Work on the first version of the
Query Builder is nearing its end. Doing remaining work on querying for quantities, dates and ranges as well as polishing and bug fixing.
Made Cognate work correctly for redirects on Wiktionary (
phab:T165061)
Fixed an issue where the termbox on Item pages used the wrong list of languages on the mobile version (
phab:T275611)
Cleaned up deleted Items from the term store database table (
phab:T263730)
Got feedback on the initial click-dummies for checking Wikidata's data against other databases to find mismatches
The article will be discussed at
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/American Association of Nutritional Consultants until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.
Hello Comrade I am kindly requesting for your expertise review the recently submitted
REASON AS THE WORLD MASTERPIECE. Thank you very much in advance.
Ibitukirire (
talk) 12:10, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
Thank very much
Andy for your selfless edits. God bless you abundantly.
Ibitukirire (
talk) 07:25, 25 March 2021 (UTC)