User talk:Emijrp/2017

Slovak

Hi, thank you for contributions of your robot.... Can you change description for Slovak language ? Correct one is: kategória projektov Wikimedia. I try to find source of this mistake, but without success due lack of my technical abilities :)--Kelovy (talk) 16:41, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

@Kelovy: Sure, I just fixed my bot. I copied it from MediaWiki:Gadget-autoEdit.js. Please report the error in that talkpage too. (And check other Slovak translations in autoedit, perhaps there are more errors). Emijrp (talk) 16:55, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

That is the site I was looking for :) Thank you so much for your help ! --Kelovy (talk) 21:55, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

Slow down your bot please

Hi, could you please slow down your bot? Right now the job queue cannot keep up, see phab:T159618. Thanks, Legoktm (talk) 23:55, 4 March 2017 (UTC)

Blocked the bot for now, please adjust your settings. Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 00:47, 5 March 2017 (UTC)

@Legoktm: @Sjoerddebruin: I have stopped the bot and replied in Phabricator. Emijrp (talk) 08:16, 5 March 2017 (UTC)

@Sjoerddebruin: I have slowed down the bot. Emijrp (talk) 09:18, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

Unbanned. Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 18:11, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

Contribution to your bot

Hi, is it possible to add language to your bot. I am able to translate into French. What is the easiest way to add this language? Should I clon your git repo and translate all the messages in French and then send you a pull request? If so, could you tell me what files I have to modify? Thank you in advance. Pamputt (talk) 18:36, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

@Pamputt: Hello! The scripts for films, paintings and common descriptions have French translations, so they don't need changes by now. The only script that needs a translation is human.descriptions.py (yes, clone and make a pull request). You will have to add French translations for nationalities (~200) and occupations (~50). It will take you a few hours or days to complete, but it's worth it because the bot will add hundred of thousands of descriptions for biographies after that. Thanks for your interest. Emijrp (talk) 19:54, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

Hi Emijrp, I have finished to translate "human.descriptions.py" and I created a pull request :D on your github repository. Pamputt (talk) 19:57, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

Village in China

Hi! If you are ever going to run your bot again on those items that are "village in China", then change the Finnish description to "kylä Kiinassa". The current description "kiinalainen kylä" means "a Chinese village", which of course, is not exactly the same thing. Not that important, but just to let you know. :) Stryn (talk) 14:57, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

@Stryn: Thanks for the notice. I have fixed the script and from now it will add the new translation. Emijrp (talk) 21:32, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

Wikimedia Category

Hello, you can add Turkish description ?
Like This:
English: "Wikimedia Category"
Turkish: "Vikimedya kategorisi"
Thanks. BirOKadarSuper (talk) 19:57, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

@BirOKadarSuper: Of course, I will add it to the bot for the next run. Can you please add Turkish translations for Wikimedia template (Q11266439), Wikinews article (Q17633526) and Wikimedia list article (Q13406463)? Thanks. Emijrp (talk) 19:42, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

@Emijrp: I will do my best. BirOKadarSuper (talk) 19:57, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

Emijrpbot

Could you please stop adding descriptions to movies that are only planned, when the descriptions are all wrong in the end. --88.76.219.13 20:26, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

adding th

In Emijrpbot, add Wikimedia list articles description in Thai: "บทความรายชื่อวิกิมีเดีย". Thanks --Nakare✝ (talk) 04:09, 24 April 2017 (UTC)

Added, thanks! Emijrp (talk) 18:18, 24 April 2017 (UTC)

Please add tg descreptions for Tajiki

Please. Can your bot add descreptions for Tajiki : гурӯҳи Викимедиа for "Wikimedia category" --Тоҷек/ToJack (talk) 17:17, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

@ToJack: I just added it to the code. The bot will add them in the next run. Thanks. Emijrp (talk) 11:03, 29 May 2017 (UTC)

bn translation

Hi, i would like to translate those script for Bengali (bn). How can i do that? --Aftabuzzaman (talk) 16:06, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

@Aftabuzzaman: I did the same with hebrew, so basically there are many scripts who do different actions. There is "human.descriptions.py" which is the most usefull. So exmaples:

There is

'en': { 'male': 'Afghan', 'female': 'Afghan' },

So if you see a line like this, just do this:

'en': { 'male': 'Afghan', 'female': 'Afghan' },
'bn': { 'male': 'Bengali for an Afghan man', 'female': 'Bengali for an Afghan woman' },

Then there are occupations (translationsOccupations):

'en': { 'male': '~ actor', 'female': '~ actress' }, 

So if you see a line like this, just do this:

'en': { 'male': '~ actor', 'female': '~ actress' }, 
'bn': { 'male': '~ actor in bengali', 'female': '~ actress in bengali' }, 

--Mikey641 (talk) 11:55, 29 May 2017 (UTC)

labels for P31 <list>

edit

Before applying "is a list" labels we must check if an item misses any other meaningful property, especially subclass of (P279).

I don't know how many edits like this were done. d1g (talk) 21:24, 13 May 2017 (UTC)

Dups ?

When creating Q29987722, I wonder if your bot should have detected Q15793917 which has the same label in one language. I think PetScan would have done that.
--- Jura 17:45, 23 May 2017 (UTC)

@Jura1: The article was created in English Wikipedia under this title "Charles Garnsworthy, Baron Garnsworthy",[1] which is different to the label present in Wikidata at that moment.[2] I use this tool to check labels. --Emijrp (talk) 11:06, 9 June 2017 (UTC)

Same with Q30126772 ?
--- Jura 17:34, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

In this case I don't know what it was wrong, because when the bot did the check, two labels (pl and nl) existed. Emijrp (talk) 11:10, 9 June 2017 (UTC)

Need Help!

Hey. You might remember me from adding hebrew to your bot code. I really need your help. We have a lot of wrong descriptions in hebrew and I was wondering if you could run your bot and fix them. Thanks.--Mikey641 (talk) 11:57, 27 May 2017 (UTC)

Hello @Mikey641:. Can you provide some examples, so I can see how hard is the task? Emijrp (talk) 11:34, 29 May 2017 (UTC)

Uri Gottlieb (Q6983482) herbew: Israeli host, english:Israeli comedian

Guy Arieli (Q6782383) herbew: Israeli host, english:Israeli actor

There are many others not related to hosts. I don't think it is that complicated (for you at least) the bot needs to go through all items with Q5:p31 + hebrew description + english description, and then do what it usually does, translate the english into hebrew.--Mikey641 (talk) 11:49, 29 May 2017 (UTC)

I think that it may produce new errors. Launching a bot to overwrite all Hebrew descriptions for humans, it is a risky task. I think there are many items with customized Hebrew descriptions added by hand that would be automatically overwritten. Emijrp (talk) 11:10, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

Need your attention

Hi Emijrp, please merge this pull request. Then update your bot script with this translation and run your script to add bengali (bn) description. It took 4 hours to complete this translation. I will be very happy if you do this. Thank you --Aftabuzzaman (talk) 21:36, 29 May 2017 (UTC)

@Aftabuzzaman: Hello and thanks for your work. I am glad you helped with your language. I will merge the code tomorrow and launch the bot in a few days. A few weeks ago we discovered some mistakes in Arabic translations and an user was fixing them (I have to merge his changes too). I ask you to please double check your Bengali translations tomorrow again, when your eyes are relaxed. I am sure you will find some errors. We need to be 99.9% sure, because fixing errors after running the bot is boring. Emijrp (talk) 22:02, 29 May 2017 (UTC)

Ok. Rechecking --Aftabuzzaman (talk) 23:48, 29 May 2017 (UTC)

Merged. I will launch the bot in a few days when I check the Arabic translation status. Emijrp (talk) 10:53, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for merge. One little correction: Please replace অসিচালক with অসিক্রীড়াবিদ (for both male & female). Meaning still same; I just found that translation in a bengali dictionary & i think it's better to use dictionary's translation. Thank you again for your help. --Aftabuzzaman (talk) 10:58, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

Done. Emijrp (talk) 11:15, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

Hi, Please merge this small correction. If your bot already added previous translation no need to correct them. Thanks --Aftabuzzaman (talk) 16:27, 19 June 2017 (UTC)

@Aftabuzzaman: Not yet, I am still adding descriptions to categories. I will run this bot soon. Merged. Emijrp (talk) 20:49, 19 June 2017 (UTC) bn: language statistics for descriptions increased from 6,511,039 (24.6%) to 7,268,411 (27.4%) [3] in the last week.

Hi, sorry for disturbing again. Please merge this small correction. There is nothing wrong with current translation, but চীনের একটি গ্রাম (a village of china) sound much better than "চীনের গ্রাম" (village of china) in bengali. You don't have fix/replace the current translation right now, But in future if you run the bot to add some other language for village of china then you may consider to do. --Aftabuzzaman (talk) 11:51, 1 July 2017 (UTC)

Hi, Please merge this pull request then update your bot's script and restart your bot (for adding bn translation with other 13 languages) Thanks. --Aftabuzzaman (talk) 00:18, 17 July 2017 (UTC)

Hi, I added more translations. Please merge & update your bot's script. Thanks --Aftabuzzaman (talk) 13:14, 19 August 2017 (UTC)

How does this bot work?

Hey, Emijrp, would you mind giving me a hint how edits like these are exactly created? I'm just asking out of mere curiosity or amazement since I just couln't figure out how your bot works. So I'd be really happy to receive your answer. In case you want to answer – which I would appreciate of course –, could you please ping me? Thans a lot in advance! I'm just not here on Wikidata that often... Best--Erdic (talk) 04:08, 31 May 2017 (UTC)

@Erdic: Hello, it is "easy" if you know Python. The bot gets a list of all items which instance of (P31) is female given name (Q11879590). Using a list of translations, it fills the missing languages, and save it. If you want a more techy explanation, you can see the code. Emijrp (talk) 07:43, 31 May 2017 (UTC)

Thank you very, very much for your quick reaction! Though I must admit that I'm still not quite sure whether I've understood how it works. Considering e. g. the item I linked above: Where does the bot exactly get the list of translations from and how does it finally make the right assignments? Sorry for my technical ignorance, but I'm really fascinated! :-) Greetings--Erdic (talk) 09:06, 31 May 2017 (UTC)

Take a look at the source code, and search for "translations". You'll understand everything. XXN, 22:00, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

Film descriptions improving/fixing needed

@Emijrp, I just saw in Wikidata:WikiProject_Movies/Tools#Improve_descriptions that project members have found some types of descriptions which needs to be improved, especially English description "film" and Italian description "film del diretto da" (this seems to be completely wrong). AFAIK for the task related to film items currently your bot does not overwrite descriptions. Could you add the function to overwrite 'en' & 'it' descriptions (temporary, for this task) and to run one-time the bot through the results returned by those queries? At the time of writing this message, there was 1281 (en) + 762 (it) items returned by queries. XXN, 22:00, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

I've provided Romanian description patterns for bot code, check git.

If you plan to modify the code for the case mentioned above, I've found also some Romanian descriptions to overwrite. Most of the items from the result of the following query (those very short, like "film" and "film, ~YEAR~") can be safely overwritten with a better description (the pattern you are using):

SELECT DISTINCT ?item ?itemLabel ?itemDescription
{
  ?item	wdt:P31 wd:Q11424 .
  FILTER EXISTS { ?item schema:description  ?itemDescription filter (lang(?itemDescription) = "ro") . }
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "ro,en,fr"}
}
LIMIT 2000

Try it!

XXN, 22:28, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

Hello XXN. I have merged your pull request, but I still have to code the Romanian overwriting part, and add support for Hungarian descriptions. I will do it ASAP. Thanks. Emijrp (talk) 09:29, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

Major Job: Pomologist

Hello Emijrp, your Bot is translating the german list for famous pomologists (friut scientists) in to Wikidata but all with their secondary professions. How could this artefact bee corrected ? Greetings --92.74.115.159 14:31, 2 July 2017 (UTC)

Fixing English descriptions, bot uses them to translate. Emijrp (talk) 15:35, 2 July 2017 (UTC)

806.4616.0110

Was adding this number as an alias to Q2 a mistake/accident? --Yair rand (talk) 01:09, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

@Yair rand: It is the ID for Earth in Carl Sagan Cosmos Enciclopedia Galactica episode. As that catalogue doesn't exist as a property to be added in the "Identifiers" section, I added it as an alias. Emijrp (talk) 05:15, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

We have catalog code (P528) fot this.--GZWDer (talk) 13:26, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

Aliases on given name

Hi Emijrp,

Please avoid creating aliases on given name items. This tends to confuse users as each spelling gets a separate item.
--- Jura 17:42, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

@Jura1: Can you provide an example? Emijrp (talk) 17:46, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

alias and Q11464766.
--- Jura 17:53, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

Nádia (Q21286038) in pt: has a redirect Nadia->Nádia. Emijrp (talk) 17:59, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

@Jura1: By the way, there is no difference between Nádia (female name in Portuguese) and Nadia (female name in Spanish). Why did you split it creating two different items? Emijrp (talk) 18:09, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

It's the way it's being done for names, see Wikidata:WikiProject Names. It allows to differentiate persons who use one spelling from those who use the other. Obviously, any Wikipedia can re-combine or differentiate as they prefer.
--- Jura 18:21, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

What source states that Nádia is different to Nadia? I am Spanish and I don't think they are different. Even if they were, I would find useful a "Nadia" alias in Nádia item, that way the search engine will show me both items. I think you are creating duplicates without proper sources. Emijrp (talk) 18:35, 9 July 2017 (UTC) (I have stopped the bot, btw)

• https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/N%C3%A1dia sees it as two different names as well. I think most other alias you are adding are fine. If you could just skip name items.
  --- Jura 18:44, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

@Jura1: given name (Q202444), female given name (Q11879590), male given name (Q12308941), family name (Q101352), proper noun (Q147276), anything else? Emijrp (talk) 23:03, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

Didn't know about the last one, but there is also unisex given name (Q3409032) and name (Q82799).

male given name (Q12308941), family name (Q101352) are probably the most frequent.
--- Jura 00:51, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Just for the record, I note that bot is running excluding all the suggested P31 items by Jura1. Emijrp (talk) 08:02, 17 July 2017 (UTC)

Diacritics

Hey Emijrp, I am wondering what the use of diacritics-less aliases for persons with diacritics in their regular name is. I see your bot systematically adding those for es and lately also for en. Thanks and regards, MisterSynergy (talk) 20:56, 14 July 2017 (UTC)

@MisterSynergy: Hello. It helps to find that items in the search engine. More info here and here. Emijrp (talk) 22:45, 14 July 2017 (UTC)

I thought from experience and other discussions that we have robust fuzzy search functionality anyway, so that diacritics don’t matter during searches anyway. External search engines definitely have this as well. —MisterSynergy (talk) 05:25, 15 July 2017 (UTC)

@MisterSynergy:, when editing an item (adding a value to a property), try to type an item name which doesn't have a non-diacritic alias. It won't be shown in the dropdown. The same happens in search engine dropdown. Emijrp (talk) 08:13, 15 July 2017 (UTC)

Wouldn’t it be better to request a technical solution for that problem via phabricator? You would otherwise have to add aliases of non-ASCII labels for each and every language. It doubt that this is good practice. —MisterSynergy (talk) 19:03, 16 July 2017 (UTC)

I think all languages fallback to English, so in theory this would work adding non-Unicode aliases just for English. I am adding it to Spanish too because I am Spaniard and it is a common practice to add accent-free aliases for my language. Emijrp (talk) 19:07, 16 July 2017 (UTC)

There is now phab:T170775. Let’s see if there will be a reaction by the developers at all, and if so what they say… Regards, and happy editing! —MisterSynergy (talk) 21:20, 16 July 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for filing a bug though I think that they won't add this feature. It is a long-term issue in Wikipedia and along the years people created unicode-free redirects to solve it. In the comment section above this one, you can see one example for what an automatic global feature for all items like the one you proposed isn't a good solution. Emijrp (talk) 07:58, 17 July 2017 (UTC)

Emijrpbot 2

Can you please postpone your bot tasks for at least one week? We are trying to get the dispatch lag down, but your bot is editing at 134 edits per minute. Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 09:58, 20 July 2017 (UTC)

@Sjoerddebruin: Done. Nobody sees here a lack of server resources? This project needs many bots to keep items updated, and it is constantly getting bottlenecks. Emijrp (talk) 10:15, 20 July 2017 (UTC)

I agree, but please see Wikidata:Bots. It's just respectful not to edit on such a high rate. Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 10:22, 20 July 2017 (UTC)

uk

Hi! Ukrainian not «категорія в проекті Вікімедіа». Аright, correctly: «категорія проекту Вікімедіа»! --Микола Василечко (talk) 12:10, 28 July 2017 (UTC)

Thanks, I have fixed my bot. Emijrp (talk) 12:21, 28 July 2017 (UTC)

Also: not «сторінка значень в проекті Вікімедіа». Аright, correctly: «сторінка значень проекту Вікімедіа». Thanks. --Микола Василечко (talk) 12:42, 28 July 2017 (UTC)

@Микола Василечко: please take a look at this file - you may want to check and add more Ukrainian descriptions. --XXN, 16:29, 28 July 2017 (UTC)

@XXN: Yes. «сторінка-список в проекті Вікімедіа». Аright, correctly: «сторінка-список проекту Вікімедіа». --Микола Василечко (talk) 17:53, 28 July 2017 (UTC)

Skip items with enwiki links?

Hi Emijrp,

To reduce the impact on the enwiki job queue, maybe the bot could skip items with sitelinks to enwiki? If it doesn't work, at least, it would help clear some of the mystery around the job queue.
--- Jura 17:20, 29 July 2017 (UTC)

@Jura1: done. Here is the code if other bot managers want to do the same. Emijrp (talk) 18:01, 29 July 2017 (UTC)

    #skiping items with en: sitelinks (temporal patch)
    sitelinks = item.sitelinks
    if 'enwiki' in sitelinks:
        continue

Potential descriptions for human-descriptions bot

Hi. I began recently to work on the list of Romanian demonyms for your human-descriptions bot. Maybe it's strange, but for Romanian it's not something trivial to compile a complete and correct list of demonyms:D Some 20-30 values are unknown/uncofirmed by real realiable dictionaries and they can't be added for now. Simultaneously I began to work on the Russian translations, and there also exists a similar problem for some 5 countries. Do you accept for this bot incomplete translation arrays? I'll have to build a python script for updating automatically the dictionary from such tables, because I'm too lazy to introduce all these entries manually :) --XXN, 20:41, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

Hello @XXN:. I have just added a patch to accept incomplete nationality arrays, so it should work fine. Anyway, I think there are two options: 1) skip missing nationalities or 2) follow this approach (Scriitori din Bangladesh‎, etc). Please, when sending your pull-request, add this in missing nationalities 'ro': { 'male': 'UNKNOWN', 'female': 'UNKNOWN' }, so it is easy to spot in the code where are missing data. Thank you for your work, and I think that you could run this bot yourself. It is good that other users get familiar with my code. Emijrp (talk) 21:27, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

Thank you. Then I'll continue in my free time to work on this, and I hope in the next days I'll submit a pull request with these translations. --XXN, 18:02, 2 August 2017 (UTC)

For Romanian done, but... --XXN, 22:26, 6 August 2017 (UTC)

@XXN: But... What? Please add a # before every "'ro': { 'male': 'UNKNOWN', 'female': 'UNKNOWN' }," line so it is commented and ignored by bot. Emijrp (talk) 12:31, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

For the Occupations dict I worked directly in script dictionary and it's ok, but for nationalities I worked in external tables and from them I constructed another dict with only RO translations. Will you succeed to patch automatically the new dict with these translations into your script? At the momment I have some problems with this (Python 2.x+Windows+unicode...) and I didn't succeeded yet to write a script for merging these additions automatically in a acceptable way. The "#" has to be added after these changes will be merged, as this may cause now some issues if a merger script will be let to read a dictionary with missing (commented) values for some dict keys. I may try again later (today or in next days) to see if I'll succeed to repair/re-write my dict_merger script, and depending on this I'll think how to proceed with the RU translations. --XXN, 13:10, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

Pull request sent (with a related notice). --XXN, 11:34, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

Merged. Emijrp (talk) 18:15, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

Bot duplicating label as alias

See [4] - your bot added an alias that's the same as the label, which isn't particularly helpful. Please could you check for this before the bot edits? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 20:51, 5 September 2017 (UTC)

The i in Victor is different ;-). Emijrp (talk) 21:10, 5 September 2017 (UTC)

Aah, I hadn't spotted that. :-) Still, it means it shows up oddly as an alternative name at en:Víctor M. Blanco Telescope. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 21:34, 5 September 2017 (UTC)

@Mike Peel: You are right. I think infoboxes shouldn't show as alternative names a name with accents variations. The alias field works as redirects[5] making easier to find items. Other possible aliases are "Víctor Manuel Blanco Telescope" and "Víctor Blanco Telescope", they are useful for the search engine here in Wikidata, but redundant in the infobox. Emijrp (talk) 21:40, 5 September 2017 (UTC)

OK, thanks. I'll look into migrating to using short name (P1813), which might be more appropriate in that case. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 22:14, 5 September 2017 (UTC)

Emijrpbot error

Hello! I found an error of your bot on this diff (2017-03-19).

Your bot added french description with "joueuse de rugby sud-africain" but sex or gender (P21) was male (Q6581097) and this means description should be "joueur de rugby sud-africain". I don't know if this bug has been reported before or if it is already fixed, but if it not, please fix it.

Thank you for looking into this and best regards. — Metamorforme42 (talk) 12:08, 14 September 2017 (UTC)

PS: I made a pull request on your github because it wasn't fixed. Could your bot checks again this type of items if this pull request is merged? — Metamorforme42 (talk) 12:24, 14 September 2017 (UTC)

Hello. Thanks for reporting this mistake. I have merged your PR, but I will think what is the best way to fix the affected items. Emijrp (talk) 12:31, 14 September 2017 (UTC)

SELECT ?item
WHERE {
    ?item wdt:P31 wd:Q5.
    ?item wdt:P21 wd:Q6581097.
    ?item wdt:P106 wd:Q14089670.
    ?item schema:description ?frdesc . FILTER(LANG(?frdesc) = "fr").
    FILTER(STRSTARTS(?frdesc, 'joueuse de rugby')).
}

Try it!

There are 3,500 items with wrong descriptions. Emijrp (talk) 12:31, 14 September 2017 (UTC)

 Done I used QuickStatementsBot to fix the affected items, it should be ok now. — Metamorforme42 (talk) 09:10, 17 September 2017 (UTC)

@metamorforme42: Awesome, thanks. Emijrp (talk) 09:46, 17 September 2017 (UTC)

description cleanup

hi, often items are incorrectly marked as disambigs or lists, e.g. Q28053081, and your bot auto-adds descriptions in many languages. I have just fixed the item - will the bot auto-remove the original description (e.g. if it still matches the description for a list in that language)? Thx! --Yurik (talk) 03:20, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

@Yurik: Hello. No, the bot doesn't overwrite descriptions. Though you can undo the bot edits to remove the descriptions on batches. I just did it. Emijrp (talk) 08:01, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

@Emijrp: I think it would be a good feature to add - track whenever P31 changes from a disambig or a list (or subclass) to something else, remove all descriptions where text is the same as the translation for that language, or any historical translation for that language (this might be harder to keep). I myself have fixed a number of these types of errors. Good idea about batch undos btw. --Yurik (talk) 17:23, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

P.S. Judging by history of Q1453627, @PLbot: does cleanup some of these, but it must have missed Q1287918. CC: @ValterVB:, @Stryn:, @Pasleim:. --Yurik (talk) 17:32, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

Personal opinion: we must never change a disambiguation item in other type of item, it's better create a new item. Some time I changed them but the more useful solution is: don't change. --ValterVB (talk) 18:26, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

stop for a while please

Hey :) We currently have a very high dispatch lag. This causes changes to show up on Wikipedia only very late. This is not ok. Can you please slow down for a while until it is down? You can check it here: Special:DispatchStats. --LydiaPintscher (talk) 18:57, 19 October 2017 (UTC)

@LydiaPintscher: Done. Emijrp (talk) 19:42, 19 October 2017 (UTC)

Thanks a lot! :) --LydiaPintscher (talk) 19:48, 19 October 2017 (UTC)

descriptions for scientific articles

Hi! Can you please tell your bot to also add "مقالهٔ علمی" as the Persian(fa) description to scientific article (Q13442814) items? Many thanks! -- Meisam (talk) 19:50, 22 October 2017 (UTC)

Done. Bot will add it in the next run. Emijrp (talk) 20:17, 22 October 2017 (UTC)

new bot script

Hello Emijrp, Do you have some time to write a new bot script for river in ...? so, we can add 300K descriptions. I have list ready. --Aftabuzzaman (talk) 20:30, 22 October 2017 (UTC)

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• You can use ccnorm_contains_any when you create an abuse filter. This can be used to look for multiple words or phrases within a string. It will find words where some characters have been replaced. You can read more in the documentation. [6]

Changes later this week

• When you search in some languages the search function could use specific other languages if the first language didn't work. This is called a fallback language. This didn't work properly and created bad searches. The search index is being fixed to work better. [7]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 October. It will be on all wikis from 26 October (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 24 October at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 25 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• There is a Structured Commons community focus group for Commons and Wikidata contributors who want to give input on structured data on Wikimedia Commons. You can sign up to join it. [8]

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18:18, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #283

Wikidata weekly summary #282

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Zugang Gestalten (slides by multichill)
  • Past: Coding Da Vinci (slides by Jonas)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Birthday Tokyo, 27 October from 12:00 to 14:00 in Roppongi Hills
  • Upcoming: WikiArabia 2017, Cairo, Egypt, 23-25 October
  • Upcoming: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October (sold out)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Birthday Seoul, 29 October from 15:00 to 18:00
  • Upcoming: Biographical Data in a Digital World 2017 6-7 November 2017 (in cooperation with Wikimedia Austria)
  • COOL-WD: A Completeness Tool for Wikidata (tool website)
  • Provenance Information in a Collaborative Knowledge Graph: an Evaluation of Wikidata External References
  • Question Answering Benchmarks for Wikidata
  • Using Word Embeddings for Search in Linked Data with Ontodia (tool website)
  • Unlocking the human potential of Wikidata
  • Textes d’Affiches, des films à lire sur Gallica
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • If you have a present or organize an event for the Wikidata's fifth birthday, feel free to add link and pictures here
  • New version of the Alexa skill for Wikidata by metaphacts
  • Nice short gif tutorial for writing a Wikidata query
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Ontario Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Quora username, Women's Basketball Hall of Fame ID, Baseball Almanac ID, sports.ru player ID, Opera Vivra singer ID, Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame ID, NLBPA ID, MusicBrainz recording ID, caliber, Women's Collegiate Tennis Hall of Fame ID, Museus.br ID, Memória Globo, Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural ID, Canada's Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, International Paralympic Committee athlete ID, Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum athlete ID, BrainInfo ID (hierarchical), NeuroNames ID (plain mode), Anvisa drug ID, BC Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, TheSports.org athlete ID, mapping relation type, Science Museum people ID, Mappy place ID, update method, Virginia Sports Hall of Fame ID, Missouri Sports Hall of Fame ID, DAMIT asteroid ID, Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, LFB player ID, Soccerdonna player ID, Sandrart.net artwork ID, youth wing
  • Query examples:
    • Average age of members of the 19th German Bundestag (source)
    • Mountains in CH by height (topographic prominence) (source)
    • Mountains in CH by height (elevation above sea level) (source)
    • Monuments in Berlin for which Berlin cultural heritage ID and geolocation are known in Wikidata (source)
    • Initial characters of names of free software (source)
    • Initial characters of names of nonfree software (source)
    • First World Heritage site per country (source)
  • Newest database reports: list of kinship types
• Development
  • Query Service throttling has been tweaked, to block a type of abusive client
  • Adding diff support for Lexeme-related edits
  • More work on checking constraints on qualifiers and references (phabricator:T168532)
  • Now caching constraints results to make it ready for rollout for more users
  • Continued work on more fine-grained usage tracking so we better know which parts of an item is used on an article on Wikipedia and the other sister projects
  • Improved the way Wikidata changes are shown in watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and Co so they are more in-line with the other changes (phabricator:T48329, phabricator:T50684) Thanks Matej!
  • Released the Wikibase DataModel component in version 7.2.0 (phabricator:T177486)
• 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 · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 08:53, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

Structured Commons newsletter, October 25, 2017

Welcome to the newsletter for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons! You can update your subscription to the newsletter. Do inform others who you think will want to be involved in the project!

Community updates

• Rama published an article about Structured Commons in Arbido, a Swiss online magazine for archivists, librarians and documentalists: original in French, illustrated and the article translated in English.
• We now have a dedicated IRC channel: wikimedia-commons-sd ^webchat

Things to do / input and feedback requests

• Join the community focus group!
• Translation. Do you want to help out translating messages about Structured Data on Commons from English to your own language? Sign up on the translators page.
• The documentation and info pages about Structured Data on Commons have received a thorough update, in order to get them ready for all the upcoming work. Obsolete pages were archived. There are undoubtedly still a lot of omissions and bits that are unclear. You can help by editing boldly, and by leaving feedback and tips on the talk pages.
• We have started to list tools, gadgets and bots that might be affected by Structured Commons in order to prepare for a smooth transition to the new situation. You can help by adding alerts about/to specific tools and developers on the dedicated tools page. You can also create Phabricator tasks to help keep track of this. Volunteers and developers interested in helping out with this process are extremely welcome - please sign up!
• Help write the next Structured Commons newsletter.

Presentations / Press / Events

Audience at Structured Commons design discussion, Wikimania 2017

• Structured Data on Commons was presented at Wikimania 2017 in Montréal for a packed room. First design sketches for search functionality were discussed during a breakout session. Read the Etherpad reports of the presentation and the breakout session.
• Katherine Maher, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, answered questions on Quora. One of her answers, mentioning Structured Data on Commons, was republished on Huffington Post.
• Sandra Fauconnier, Amanda Bittaker and Ramsey Isler from the Structured Commons team will be at WikidataCon. Sandra presents Structured Commons there (with a focus on fruitful collaboration between the Wikidata and Commons communities). If you attend the conference, don't hesitate to say hi and have a chat with us! (phabricator task T176858)

Team updates

The Structured Commons team at Wikimania 2017

Two new people have been hired for the Structured Data on Commons team. We are now complete! :-)

• Ramsey Isler is the new Product Manager of the Multimedia team.
• Pamela Drouin was hired as User Interface Designer. She works at the Multimedia team as well, and her work will focus on the Structured Commons project.

Partners and allies

• We are still welcoming (more) staff from GLAMs (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) to become part of our long-term focus group (phabricator task T174134). You will be kept in the loop of the project, and receive regular small surveys and requests for feedback. Get in touch with Sandra if you're interested - your input in helping to shape this project is highly valued!

Research

Design research is ongoing.

• Jonathan Morgan and Niharika Ved have held interviews with various GLAM staff about their batch upload workflows and will finish and report on these in this quarter. (phabricator task T159495)
• At this moment, there is also an online survey for GLAM staff, Wikimedians in Residence, and GLAM volunteers who upload media collections to Wikimedia Commons. The results will be used to understand how we can improve this experience. (phabricator task T175188)
• Upcoming: interviews with Wikimedia volunteers who curate media on Commons (including tool developers), talking about activities and workflows. (phabricator task T175185)

Development

In Autumn 2017, the Structured Commons development team works on the following major tasks (see also the quarterly goals for the team):

• Getting Multi-Content Revisions sufficiently ready, so that the Multimedia and Search Platform teams can start using it to test and prototype things.
• Determine metrics and metrics baseline for Commons (phabricator task T174519).
• The multimedia team at WMF is gaining expertise in Wikibase, and unblocking further development for Structured Commons, by completing the MediaInfo extension for Wikibase.

Stay up to date!

• Follow the Structured Data on Commons project on Phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/34/
• Subscribe to this newsletter to receive it on a talk page of your own choice.
• Join the next IRC office hour and ask questions to the team! It takes place on Tuesday 21 November, 18.00 UTC.

Warmly, your community liaison, SandraF (WMF) (talk)

Message sent by MediaWiki message delivery - 14:26, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #284

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Defining account creators

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: WikiArabia 2017, Cairo, Egypt, 23-25 October
  • Past: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October. You can find the slides, notes and video recordings for most of the sessions
  • Past: Wikidata's fifth birthday in Tokyo, Seoul, Munich
  • Upcoming: Using Wikidata to create a multi-lingual multi-dialectal dictionary for Arabic dialects in the 14th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2017), Yasmine Hammamet, Tunisia, 30 October-3 November.
  • Upcoming : Wikidata and Wiki Loves Monuments editathon in Berlin, 24-26 November (in German). We're looking for trainers to explain the basic use of QuickStatements, Open Refine and Mix'n'Match. If you want to join, please contact MB-one

• Wikidata's birthday
• The fifth anniversary of Wikidata was celebrated, as every year, with a lot of presents, events and stories. You can find an overview on the birthday page.
  • Birthday presents
    • Search index now contains statements with {{Property|P31}} and {{P|P279}}. These can be used to influence search rankings and in the future also for matching.
    • inventaire.io CC0 Wikidata-ready NDJSON and TTL dumps are now accessible at dumps.inventaire.io
    • You can now move claims to new items with moveClaim.js. You can do so by typing "new".
    • Prefix search on Wikidata (wbsearchentities API) now is using ElasticSearch as backend. This should improve search quality and also is more flexible and tunable.
    • Wikidata becomes a proper citizen of the linked open data web
    • graves.wiki – visualization of grave locations stored in Wikidata
    • Wikidata Concepts Monitor (WDCM) - Wikidata semantic topics and usage statistics
    • Happy Birthday to You, Dear Wikidata – recording and improvisation (Lucas Werkmeister)
    • You can now create items from the command-line
    • Crochet your own cute structured data bee to express your appreciation for structured data in the Wikimedia movement! And ask her/him/it to join the Wikimedia Cuteness Association (Q29169245).
    • Wikidata Query Service UI: Geoshapes from Commons are now displayed in the Map view: Constituencies for the election to the German Bundestag 2017, with winning candidate and party
    • Wikidata Query Service UI: The query service now shows you code examples for how to use your query in many programming languages (example query)
    • Dungeon of Knowledge (source), a roguelike game where you explore a dungeon full of bits of Wikidata wisdom
    • Simple WD an experiment of a simple frontend API on top of Wikidata using JSON-LD and schema.org.
    • mapview widget/user script on Wikidata
    • Images fragments for an item depicted on several artworks
    • Histropedia Query Timeline tool - Demo of cool new features launched today for WikidataCon
    • Q42395533 - the first item about a notable item!
    • SQID now suggests statements that we are missing (example page, log in to see suggestions) -- more on Wikidata:WikiProject_Reasoning soon
    • From labs VM to Wikibase Query Service in 2 minutes (using Docker images and docker-compose)
  • Stories and reflections
    • Wishes for the year to come, by Tpt
    • Happy Birthday Wikidata! by the Gene Wiki Team
    • Some random thoughts on the occasion of Wikidata's fifth birthday, by PKM
    • Wishes and a personal story, by Spinster
    • Happy Birthday, Wikidata by RolandUnger from Wikivoyage
    • Happy Birthday, Wikidata by Katherine Maher
    • Two years of Wikidata experience from ArthurPSmith
    • Happy Birthday wishes from Wikimedia Deutschland
    • Message from the development team

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Biblioteca Nacional de México ID, MNCARS artist ID, BFI Film and TV ID, FPB rating, The Coptic Library ID, snap package, LesBiographies.com ID, Indian Foundation for Butterflies ID, AKL Online Artist ID, Google Doodle, New York City Parks Monument ID, Pro14 player ID, implementation of, GACS ID, Y-DNA Haplogroup, mtDNA haplogroup, mandates, Portuguese lighthouse ID, U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame athlete ID, Sportbox.ru ID, VNDB ID, Videolectures ID, New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame ID, rfpl.org player ID, Panthéon des sports du Québec ID, Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee ID, New Brunswick Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Ontario Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Quora username, Women's Basketball Hall of Fame ID
  • Query examples:
    • Organic acids with images (source)
    • People who are their father's father (source)
    • 2017 German federal election results by district with geoshapes and color depending on the % of votes (source)
    • Cities with most first performances of works (source)
    • Count of women Vs. guys names “John” in the UK parliament (source)
    • Percentage of popes who died in Rome (source)
    • First sites registered at Unesco for each country (source)

• Development
  • Continued working on persistent storage of edits on Lexeme pages
  • Fixed an encoding problem in the SVG download of query results in the query service (phabricator:T178564)
  • Fixed a problem with change dispatching changes to Wikipedia and co, that sometimes lead to single wikis falling way behind. (T179060)
  • Added full URIs for external identifiers to the RDF export
  • You can leave feedback on how improved fulltext search result page should look like

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• 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) 15:29, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-44

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 block users from emailing you through the Wikimedia wikis. [9]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 31 October at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 1 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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00:20, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #285

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Obaid Raza

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Wikidata, a rapidly growing global hub, turns five on WMF's blog by Andrew Lih and Robert Fernandez
  • Locating IMDB IDs of movies in the Internet Archive using Wikidata, by Petter Reinholdtsen
  • Mix-n-Match: Large Catalogs, by Magnus Manske

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • If you want to review what happened during the WikidataCon, here is the list of all the sessions, with slides, notes and videos, when available
  • Release of wikidata-edit v2.0.0: brings qualifiers and references support, and a few breaking changes. See changelogs
  • Release of wikidata-cli v5.0.0: brings qualifiers and references support, multi-entity summary|label|description|description requests, a new `edit-item` command, and a few breaking changes. See changelogs

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Barbarian R.C. id, Barbarian F.C. id, Isidore ID, Team GB athlete ID, HOC athlete ID, COAM architect ID, Camera Decision ID, Google Play developer ID, INDUCKS miniseries ID, INDUCKS issue ID, INDUCKS story ID, INDUCKS publisher ID, INDUCKS creator ID, INDUCKS publication ID, INDUCKS character ID, Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Accused witch ID, Humble Store ID, Australian Baseball League player ID, European Fencing Confederation athlete ID, IBHOF boxer ID, Melon artist ID, Czech Jockey Club horse ID, Rush Parliamentary Archive ID, British Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association ID, IGHOF athlete ID, Mountain Bike Hall of Fame inductee ID, Twitch game ID, Unified Astronomy Thesaurus ID, Ecole des chartes thesis abstract ID, Rugby League Project player ID, Canadian Ski Hall of Fame inductee ID, Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame inductee ID, World Golf Hall of Fame player ID, Kaitai Struct format gallery ID, Diccionario biográfico español ID, Dutch Cemetery in Chinsurah ID, Discography of American Historical Recordings ID, Internet Off-Broadway Database ID, Coinage of the Roman Republic Online ID, Argentine Chamber of Deputies ID, Argentine Senate member ID, Thibaudeau classification, Scoresway handball person ID, HAL author ID, Shirat Nashim person ID, cash back, Minimum Spend Bonus, reward program, grace period, reward, Card Network, mean age, hydraulic head
  • Query examples:
    • endemic moths of New Zealand with images in Wikidata (source)
    • Images of people commemorated by plaques in Jena, Germany (source)
    • Paintings located in Le Louvre without pictures on Wikidata, with the location in the museum (source)
    • Persons who will have their work in public domain in 2018 in Denmark, with their occupations (source)
    • Political parties by ideology in a tree view (source)
    • Organic acids with pictures (source)
    • Levels of education in France, from kindergarten to high school, with their US equivalents (source)
    • Horses drawn on hills in the UK (source)
    • Frequency of “retrieved” dates in Wikidata references (source)
  • Newest database reports: completeness of family relation properties

• Development
  • query service UI improvements (Ided10bb8c8, I3c6ec22a15, Ieb6e561563, I9a526fc8b4, Ib4ea273ab1
  • proposed changes to HTML around statements – feedback welcome!
  • Finished diff support for lexeme phab:T178757
  • Refactoring PropertySuggester-python for better maintainability and performance (phab:T179664)
  • JavaScript libraries used by Wikibase have been integrated as submodules into Wikibase's git repository (phab:T177087)
  • Git repository of the Wikibase JavaScript API has been moved. Check your settings! (phab:T178226)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• 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.
  • The Cebuano and Swedish wikis have a lot of bot-created content which is unconnected to other wiki articles. A good way to tackle that problem is by checking constraint violations for property GeoNames ID.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 11:31, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-45

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 will no longer see the patrol log on Special:Log unless you specifically select it. [10]

Changes later this week

• The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey begins on 6 November. You can post proposals from 19:00 UTC and until November 19.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 November. It will be on all wikis from 9 November (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 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• URLs that link to sections on Wikimedia wikis with non-Latin scripts have looked like this: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#.D0.98.D1.81.D1.82.D0.BE.D1.80.D0.B8.D1.8F instead of https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#История. This will soon be fixed. Old links will still work. [11][12]

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18:44, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: October 2017

This Month in GLAM – Volume VII, Issue X, October 2017 Headlines Australia and New Zealand report: Adding Australian women in research to Wikipedia Brazil report: Integrating Wikimedia projects into the Brazilian National Archives GLAM Bulgaria report: Botevgrad became the first wikitown in Bulgaria France report: Wiki Loves Monuments; Opérations Libres Germany report: GLAMorous activities in October Italy report: Experts training on GLAM projects Serbia report: Wikipedian in residence at Historical Archives of Subotica; Model of a grain of wheat exlusivly digitized for Wikimedia Commons; Cooperation of the Ministry of Culture and Information and Wikimedia Serbia - GLAM presentations and workshops for museums, archives and libraries Spain report: Women Writers Day Sweden report: Swedish Performing Arts Agency; Connected Open Heritage; Internetmuseum; More Working life museums UK report: Scotland's Libraries & Hidden Gems Ukraine report: Wikitraining for Librarians; Library Donation USA report: trick or treat Wikidata report: WikidataCon & Birthday WMF GLAM report: News about Structured Commons! Calendar: November'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 #286

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: IRC office hour, November 14th, 19:00 (UTC+2) in the channel #wikimedia-office
  • Review of the WikidataCon by Sean McBirnie (Histropedia)
  • Blogpost on workflow co-documentation with community members during the WikidataCon, by Jan Dittrich
  • Completeness and the Age of Abundance of free tools, in Basque language, by Theklan
  • Report about the first WikidataCon in Hungarian language, by Texaner
  • Report of the WikidataCon 2017 in German, by MB-one
  • Visualising Wikidata on Interactive Timelines using HistropediaJS by Sean McBirnie
  • Wikidata: A growing community behind open data by John Samuel
  • Report about the 2017 WikidataCon in Polish, by Yarl
  • Report about WikidataCon 2017 for WMAM community in Armenian, by Kareyac
  • WikidataCon - my résumé by Ahoerstemeier

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata training material and sample SPARQL queries by Geertivp
  • A new version of Unicode CLDR was released, including data about languages from Wikidata
  • research article where Wikidata is used to unify metabolite identifiers: WikiPathways

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: vertical depth, describes a project that uses, National Monuments of Namibia Site Reference, CycleBase cyclist ID, California Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Formal Public Identifier, IAFD male performer ID, IWRP athlete ID, Wimbledon player ID, Snooker.org ID, albedo, family relationship degree, World Snooker athlete ID, Microsoft Store artist ID, NACE code, Xenopus Anatomical Ontology ID
  • Query examples:
    • Timeline of the works of Robert Louis Stevenson (source)
    • Canals within 800 kilometres of Glasgow (source)
    • File systems by developer, date, and OS (source)
    • Map of metro stations of Bilbao (source)
    • Highest point of each department of France (source)
• Newest database reports: properties count by datatype, Mayflower voyage participants, film archives

• Development
  • Fixed a series of smaller regressions after switching to Cirrus based search backend (phabricator:T179045, phabricator:T179061, phabricator:T179130)
  • Latitudes, longitudes, as well as coordinate precisions have accidentally been exported to RDF as xsd:decimal, and are going to be exported as xsd:double soon (phabricator:T179228)
  • Continue on refactoring PropertySuggester-python for better maintainability and performance (phab:T179664)
  • Make AffectedPagesFinder take DESCRIPTION_USAGE into account (phab:T176417)
  • Add wikibase-snakview-indicators area where gadgets and user scripts can safely add indicators instead of directly appending to the value (phab:T95403, d:WD:PC#Gadget / userscript editor feedback wanted)
  • Accessing mw.config.get( 'wbEntity' ) will trigger a deprecation warning, gadgets and user script should use the wikibase.entityPage.entityLoaded hook instead (phabricator:T169771)
  • Work on caching constraint check results (phab:T179849) and indicating that they are cached (phab:T179844)
  • Work on JSON-LD support in the Purtle library used for exports (gerrit:379669)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• 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) 14:36, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-46

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 diff you see when you compare two different versions of a page has changed on MediaWiki.org and the test wiki. This is to make it easier to find a text change in a moved paragraph. It will hopefully soon come to more wikis. You can report bugs in Phabricator. [13]
• A new user group on Commons will be able to upload MP3 files. The plan is to have this user group from 17 November. [14]
• Wikis using Flagged Revisions will get the New filters for Edit Review by default on the recent changes pages. It will be possible to opt-out in user preferences. [15]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 November. It will be on all wikis from 16 November (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 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Support for uploading and viewing 3D models is coming soon to Wikimedia Commons. The feature will support the .STL file format. You can see an example on the test wiki. [16]

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19:19, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-47

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

• If you use the Chrome web browser on Android you can see a download icon on the mobile website. You can download a formatted PDF. It will work in other mobile browsers in the future. [17]
• The abuse filter now has a function called get_matches. You can use it to store matches from regular expressions – one of each capturing group. You can read more in Phabricator.

Problems

• Last week's MediaWiki version didn't come to all Wikipedias because of a database crash. It will be on all wikis on 20 November. [18][19][20]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 21 November at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 22 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Language converter syntax will no longer work inside external links. Wikitext like http://-{zh-cn:foo.com; zh-hk:bar.com; zh-tw:baz.com}- must be replaced. You will have to write -{zh-cn: http://foo.com ; zh-hk: http://bar.com ; zh-tw:http://baz.com }- instead. This only affects languages with Language Converter enabled. Examples of such languages are Chinese and Serbian. This will happen next week. [21][22]

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Wikidata weekly summary #287

Wikidata weekly summary #287 Global message delivery/Targets/Wikidata

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

• Discussions
  • Monolingual language code creation process

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: IRC office hour (log)
  • Past: Wikidata Lab II, a workshop to teach users how to create lists using Wikidata in São Paulo (images from the event)
  • Upcoming: IRC office hour about Structured Data on Commons, November 21, 18:00 UTC in the channel #wikimedia-office
  • Upcoming: WLM-Wikidata-Editathon 2017 in Berlin, November 24-26
  • Upcoming: Wiki4MediaFreedom edit-a-thon - II edition (with Wikidata track) in Sofia, November 27
  • Upcoming: Wikidata-Hackathon at WikiMUC in Munich, November 30
  • WikidataCon 2017
  • Fünf Jahre Wikidata at Chaosradio
  • "Turning a historical book into a data set"
  • "Creating Wikipedia articles from research data"

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New tool by Magnus: Wikidata SPARQL Recent Changes - get diffs for all items matching a SPARQL query, for a date range
  • New tool by Magnus: WD edit stats - get edit stats for all items matching a SPARQL query
  • Wikidata coverage for 'place' in OpenStreetMap (as of October 2017)
  • OpenRefine 2.8 was released. Adding columns from Wikidata and importing Wikitables is now possible. Let's write tutorials for it.
  • Mix'n'match now shows for a catalog which user originally imported it and if it is updated regularly (example)
  • A breaking change to the wbcheckconstraints API output format was announced

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: CGF athlete ID, OKS athlete ID, Gymn Forum athlete ID, sexually homologous with, Tennis Temple player ID, has listed ingredient, World of O athlete ID, HOO athlete ID, IBTrACS cyclone ID, Collective Biographies of Women ID, Snooker Database player ID, Spider Ontology ID, EThOS thesis ID, EUTA theatre ID, EUTA person ID, Czech Street ID, Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Trial ID, ChinesePosters artist ID, Bangladesh administrative division code, Douban movie ID, REGINE water system number, UK Parliament thesaurus ID, ABA bird ID, MuIS ID, Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Person ID, Vermont Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Alaska Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Radio Radicale person ID, SUNCAT ID, payload mass, Melon album ID, ctext work ID, Mémoire du cyclisme cyclist ID, Prisma ID, Africultures person ID, Africultures movie ID, Scottish Cemetery Kolkata ID
  • Query examples:
    • List of subclasses of Matrices
    • Works of art in which the artists depicts their spouse (source)
    • locations Van Gogh depicted in his paintings (source)
    • Gender split of past Google Doodles (source)
  • Newest database reports: expeditions

• Development
  • Fixed Commons media suggester not loading all preview thumbnails (phabricator:T160528)
  • RDF exports can handle entity references to foreign Wikibase repositories now, needed for Structured Data on Commons (phabricator:T161592)
  • Worked on making statements on Forms editable and persistent (phabricator:T163724)
  • Worked on fine-grained usage tracking in Wikibase' Lua library (phabricator:T172914)
  • Worked on caching constraint check results (phabricator:T179849) and indicating when constraint check results are cached (phabricator:T179844)
  • Wikibase code base does not use Composer class autoloading any more (phabricator:T180067) as another step towards getting rid of our own build process and being more in line with the rest of Wikimedia

• 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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The Signpost: 24 November 2017

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

• News and notes: Cons, cons, cons

• Arbitration report: Administrator desysoped; How to deal with crosswiki issues; Mister Wiki case likely

• Technology report: Searching and surveying

• Interview: A featured article centurion

• WikiProject report: Recommendations for WikiProjects

• In the media: Open knowledge platform as a media institution

• Traffic report: Strange and inappropriate

• Featured content: We will remember them

• Recent research: Who wrote this? New dataset on the provenance of Wikipedia text

• Humour: Good faith (but still incomprehensible)

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Check your translations

Hello, your bot added many translated description for species items (thank you for this), but this kind of fr & it translations was bad: arachnid is not a synonym of spider, and here we have a pseudo-scorpion treated as a spider... I cannot imagine how many pages are affected, but could you replace araignées in French by arachnides, and ragno in Italian by aracnidi? Thank you in advance! :) Regards, Totodu74 (talk) 13:33, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #288

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: start time / end time vs. publication date of 1st / last episode
  • Proposal to add some order and structure to the various bibliographic corpora we currently have in Wikidata (mailing list post)

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: IRC office hour about Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons. You can read the log on meta.
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Prague, December 1st
  • Well structured political data for the whole world: impossible utopia, or Wikidata at its best?
  • Spatial-based Topic Modelling using Wikidata Knowledge Base (in Wikidata as Q43662744)
  • Cleaning BNF identifier in Wikidata by Envlh (in French)
  • Monitoring changes to Wikidata pages of your interest by Egon Willighagen

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Sandra is co-ordinating an inventory of crucial volunteer tools for Wikimedia Commons, GLAM, and structured data in general. You can provide input and prioritize your favorite tools in this Google spreadsheet.
  • Q43649390 is an item about our concept of "QID"s
  • OpenRefine 2.8 was released. Adding columns from Wikidata and importing Wikitables is now possible.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: type foundry, Accademia della Crusca ID, first appearance, USGHOF athlete ID, Kulturelles Erbe Köln object ID, Städel Museum artist ID, Berlinische Galerie artist ID, Tidal video ID, Tidal track ID, Tidal album ID, Tidal artist ID, HTML entity, Norwegian historical register of persons ID, Merchant Category Code, SS KL Auschwitz Garrison ID, West Australian Football League player ID, Wikidata project, BPH journal ID, SNCZI-IPE reservoir ID, BTO five-letter code, awarded for period, electoral district number, Art Museum of Estonia artwork ID, Art Museum of Estonia artist ID, Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame ID, Basketball-Reference.com WNBA ID, National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame ID, IJF ID, SNCZI-IPE dam ID, Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame ID, FAI ID, Canada Games ID, ICRC PoW ID, RA Collections ID, mountain range, Everyone Remembered ID, CNRS research group ID, ARLIMA ID
  • Query examples:
    • People who were Time Person of the Year in two consecutive years (source)
    • Fictional characters “said to be the same as” other fictional characters from the same fictional universe (source)
    • Map of places of birth of deceased sociologists (source)
    • Map of libraries in India (source)
    • Train and subway stations in Basque Country (source)
  • Newest database reports: Decameron editions and translations

• Development
  • Result views in the Wikidata Query Service UI can now be configured with options (phabricator:T155973, Special:Diff/580233265/596922582)
  • Worked more on introducing the concept of sub.entities in the APIs in order to make edits to Forms persistent
  • Worked on edit summaries for edits to Forms

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• 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) 15:43, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-48

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 test the new advanced search function beta feature on mediawiki.org. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. It will come to German and Arabic Wikipedia this week. It will come to more wikis later. [23]
• You can now upload large files with the Internet Archive upload tool. Previously you could not upload files larger than 100 MB. [24]
• You can now use the Timeless skin on all wikis. You can choose skins in Special:Preferences#Appearance. [25]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 November. It will be on all wikis from 30 November (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 28 November at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 29 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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20:30, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #289

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: Using the Digital to Engage Archival Radio Collections: Part II (Wikidata Workshop), Washington, D.C., November 2, 2017 with Andrew Lih and Alex Stinson
  • Past: Wikidata Clinic (slides) in Washington, D.C., December 1, 2017, with Andrew Lih and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight
  • Past: Wikikonference in Prague with a Wikidata workshop in Czech and a introduction of Wikidata and its community
  • Wikipedia Weekly audio podcast coverage of Wikidata:
    • Episode 126 - Introduction to Wikidata, with Andrew Lih and Rob Fernandez
    • Episode 127 - WikidataCon 2017 roundtable discussion, with Andrew Lih, Liam Wyatt, Stacy Allison-Cassin, Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, Rob Fernandez
  • Wikidata as authority linking hub: Connecting RePEc and GND researcher identifiers by Joachim Neubert
  • Importing data into Wikidata - Current challenges and ideas future development by Navino Evans
  • The Wikidata map in November 2017 and what changed during the last four months, by Addshore

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • You can now vote for your favorite proposals on the Community Wishlist Survey. The voting phase is open until December 10th.
  • If you run any functionality on Wikimedia sites that uses queries to the Wikidata Query Service, please add it here (more information)
  • The 600,000,000th edit has been made.
  • The first content made specifically for Wikimedia projects in space has been added to Wikidata (see Close encounters of the Wikipedia kind)
  • The Aaron Swartz Fellowship at OSA, Budapest, Hungary, is open for applications (deadline Dec. 31). The second focus area of the fellowship may be of interest to Wikidata folks.

• Did you know?
• Newest properties: set designer, Swedish Musical Heritage composer ID, National Film Board of Canada movie ID, South Dakota Sports Hall of Fame ID, World Rugby Hall of Fame ID, Microsoft Store album ID, date of burial or cremation, Lives of WWI ID, polymer of, monomer of, FAPESP researcher ID, FAPESP institution ID, NIOSH Publication Number, post town, arXiv author ID, CPE athlete ID, Mountain Project ID, National Inventory of Canadian Military Memorials ID, Atomic Heritage Foundation ID, Dreadnought Project page, IWGA athlete ID, Argentinian Historic Heritage ID
  • Query examples:
    • Timeline for the writer Robert Louis Stephenson (source)
    • Movies with Bud Spencer and Terence Hill (source)
    • Photographers born before the inception of the earliest photograph (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Stolpersteine, Jasmerah
  • Newest database reports: Q5 with identical P18

• Development
  • Wikidata will get dedicated database resources, and go read-only for 30 minutes on 9th January 2018 (phabricator:T181645)
  • There were no RDF dumps last week due to problems generating them, investigation is still going on (phabricator:T181385)
  • Improved the threshold for ORES on Wikidata (phabricator:T180450)
  • Working on fixing a regression after a change in MediaWiki core that makes edit links show up on diff pages (phabricator:T181807)
  • More work on persistent editing of statements on Forms of a Lexeme (specifically phabricator:T180467)
  • Improved size of the diff that we sent to Wikipedia and co for changes happening on Wikidata. This is one more needed step towards only showing meaningful edits in the watchlists and recent changes there. (phabricator:T113468)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• 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) 16:31, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-49

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

• It is now possible to upload MP3 files to Commons. Only users with MP3 file upload rights can upload MP3 files. [26]
• You can now use live updates for recent changes if you use the new filters. This feature updates the filtered recent changes every three seconds when you activate it. [27]
• There is an experimental onion service for Wikimedia projects. [28]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 December. It will be on all wikis from 7 December (calendar).
• Very old versions of the Opera Web browser are no longer supported. This means that technical development will not be tested to make sure it works with those Opera versions. Use Opera 15 or above or another browser if you have problems. [29]
• Almost 170 wikis with no high-priority errors in Linter categories will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. A few larger wikis such as German and Italian Wikipedia will also make this switch. It will happen on 5 December. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [30][31]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 5 December at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey will decide what the Community Tech team will work on next year. You can vote for wishes on the survey page until 10 December. You can see what has happened to last year's wishes on the 2016 results page.
• The Community Liaisons team at the Wikimedia Foundation is looking for active tech ambassadors. This is to make sure the Wikimedia communities get all the information they need about new features and can be involved in the technical development. [32]

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17:50, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: November 2017

This Month in GLAM – Volume VII, Issue XI, November 2017 Headlines Australia and New Zealand report: GLAM Peak digital collections workshops Brazil report: Can you hear this GLAM?; Glam activities at I IWSC and 3D reconstruction project Côte d'Ivoire report: Training 10 librarians, partnering with APSID-CI Czech Republic report: Edit-a-thon in Regional museum in Slaný 2017 Estonia report: Digital Humanities Conference held as Part of Estonian Presidency of Council of the EU France report: Edit-a-thons in Saint-Brieuc and Montpellier Germany report: A new archive building is born and more GLAM on Tour Stations Ireland report: Digital Preservation Community Workshop Macedonia report: Edit-a-thon related to WWII; Wiki Loves Food 2017 Netherlands report: Photographs of Africa & KB-Wiki partnership Serbia report: Two Wikipedians in residence and one edit-a-thon Spain report: Working with libraries Sweden report: Nordiska museet; Internetmuseum; Statens maritima museer; Nationalmuseum; Swedish Performing Arts Agency workshop Tunisia report: Upload Book UK report: Libraries gave us power Ukraine report: Volunteers cooperate with GLAMers USA report: remember November Special story: Out of This World! Wikidata report: Onwards and Upwards WMF GLAM report: Conferences, case studies, Structured Commons, #1lib1ref Calendar: December'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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Check your translations

As my previous message sedimented under the spam of robots, I take the liberty to copy it here:



Hello, your bot added many translated description for species items (thank you for this), but this kind of fr & it translations was bad: arachnid is not a synonym of spider, and here we have a pseudo-scorpion treated as a spider... I cannot imagine how many pages are affected, but could you replace araignées in French by arachnides, and ragno in Italian by aracnidi? Thank you in advance! :) Regards, Totodu74 (talk) 13:33, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

See also Wikidata:Bot requests#Many arachnids are not spiders, if you accept to handle it. Totodu74 (talk) 11:18, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

Structured Commons newsletter, December 13, 2017

Welcome to the newsletter for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons! You can update your subscription to the newsletter. Do inform others who you think will want to be involved in the project!

Community updates

• There was a IRC Office Hour about Structured Commons on November 21. You can read the log here.
• Our dedicated IRC channel: wikimedia-commons-sd ^webchat

Things to do / input and feedback requests

A multi-licensed image on Wikimedia Commons, with a custom {{EthnologyItemMHNT}} Information template. Do you also know media files on Commons that will be interesting or challenging to model with structured data? Add them to the Interesting Commons files page.

• NEW: Participate in a survey that helps us prioritize which tools are important for the Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata communities. The survey runs until December 22. Here's some background.
• NEW: Help the team decide on better names for 'captions' and 'descriptions'. You can provide input until January 3, 2018.
• NEW: Help collect interesting Commons files, to prepare for the data modelling challenges ahead! Continuous input is welcome.
• Join the community focus group!
• Do you want to translate messages and information about Structured Data on Commons from English to your own language? Sign up on the translators page.

Presentations / Press / Events

Presentation about Structured Commons and Wikidata, at WikimediaCon in Berlin.

• Sandra presented the plans for Structured Commons during WikidataCon in Berlin, on October 29. The presentation focused on collaboration between the Wikidata and Commons communities. You can see the full video here.

Partners and allies

• We are still welcoming (more) staff from GLAMs (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) to become part of our long-term focus group (phabricator task T174134). You will be kept in the loop of the project, and receive regular small surveys and requests for feedback. Get in touch with Sandra if you're interested - your input in helping to shape this project is highly valued!

Research

• Research findings from interviews and surveys of GLAM project participants are being published to the research page. Check back over the next few weeks as additional details (notes, quotes, charts, blog posts, and slide decks) will be added to or linked from that page.

Development

• The Structured Commons team has written and submitted a report about the first nine months of work on the project to its funders, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The 53-page report, published on November 1, is available on Wikimedia Commons.
• The team has started working on designs for changes to the upload wizard (T182019).
• We started preliminary work to prototype changes for file info pages.
• Work on the MediaInfo extension is ongoing (T176012).
• The team is continuing its work on baseline metrics on Commons, in order to be able to measure the effectiveness of structured data on Commons. (T174519)
• Upcoming: in the first half of 2018, the first prototypes and design sketches for file pages, the UploadWizard, and for search will be published for discussion and feedback!

Stay up to date!

• Follow the Structured Data on Commons project on Phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/34/
• Subscribe to this newsletter to receive it on a talk page of your own choice.
• Join the next IRC office hour and ask questions to the team! It takes place on Tuesday, February 13, 18.00 UTC in wikimedia-office ^webchat.

Warmly, your community liaison, SandraF (WMF) (talk)

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The Signpost: 18 December 2017

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

• Special report: Women in Red World Contest wrap-up

• Blog: Close encounters of the Wikipedia kind

• Featured content: Featured content to finish 2017

• In the media: Stolen seagulls, public domain primates and more

• Arbitration report: Last case of 2017: Mister Wiki editors

• Gallery: Wiki loving

• Interview: Interview with Charlesjsharp, regular contributor of Wikipedia's Featured Pictures.

• Recent research: French medical articles have "high rate of veracity"

• Technology report: Your wish lists and more Wikimedia tech

• Traffic report: Notable heroes and bad guys

• Humour: On their way to the WMF Incubator

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