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Tech News: 2024-40
modificareLatest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
- Readers of 42 more wikis can now use Dark Mode. If the option is not yet available for logged-out users of your wiki, this is likely because many templates do not yet display well in Dark Mode. Please use the night-mode-checker tool if you are interested in helping to reduce the number of issues. The recommendations page provides guidance on this. Dark Mode is enabled on additional wikis once per month.
- Editors using the 2010 wikitext editor as their default can access features from the 2017 wikitext editor by adding
?veaction=editsource
to the URL. If you would like to enable the 2017 wikitext editor as your default, it can be set in your preferences. [1] - For logged-out readers using the Vector 2022 skin, the "donate" link has been moved from a collapsible menu next to the content area into a more prominent top menu, next to "Create an account". This restores the link to the level of prominence it had in the Vector 2010 skin. Learn more about the changes related to donor experiences. [2]
- The CampaignEvents extension provides tools for organizers to more easily manage events, communicate with participants, and promote their events on the wikis. The extension has been enabled on Arabic Wikipedia, Igbo Wikipedia, Swahili Wikipedia, and Meta-Wiki. Chinese Wikipedia has decided to enable the extension, and discussions on the extension are in progress on Spanish Wikipedia and on Wikidata. To learn how to enable the extension on your wiki, you can visit the CampaignEvents page on Meta-Wiki.
- View all 22 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- Developers with an account on Wikitech-wiki should check if any action is required for their accounts. The wiki is being changed to use the single-user-login (SUL) system, and other configuration changes. This change will help reduce the overall complexity for the weekly software updates across all our wikis.
In depth
- The server switch was completed successfully last week with a read-only time of only 2 minutes 46 seconds. This periodic process makes sure that engineers can switch data centers and keep all of the wikis available for readers, even if there are major technical issues. It also gives engineers a chance to do maintenance and upgrades on systems that normally run 24 hours a day, and often helps to reveal weaknesses in the infrastructure. The process involves dozens of software services and hundreds of hardware servers, and requires multiple teams working together. Work over the past few years has reduced the time from 17 minutes down to 2–3 minutes. [3]
Meetings and events
- October 4–6: WikiIndaba Conference's Hackathon in Johannesburg, South Africa
- November 4–6: MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2024 in Vienna, Austria
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Rusoaică-rusă
modificareAdjectivul e „rusă”, „rusoaică” e substantiv. Trebuie modificat în articole. Donarius (discuție) 5 octombrie 2024 13:50 (EEST)
- La fel franțuzoaică-franceză (subst.-adj.). --Donarius (discuție) 5 octombrie 2024 13:51 (EEST)
- Australiancă-australiană. Sper să nu mai fie și altele. --Donarius (discuție) 5 octombrie 2024 13:52 (EEST)
- Probabil mai sunt, că folosesc demonimul. Nu mi-e clar de ce e greșit, dar le putem corecta în grup apoi. Strainu (دسستي) 5 octombrie 2024 13:55 (EEST)
- Sunt mai multe: braziliancă-braziliană, chinezoaică-chineză, americancă-americană, norvegiancă-norvegiană, cehoaică-cehă, italiancă-italiană (la ultima nu am verificat dacă există). --Donarius (discuție) 5 octombrie 2024 13:59 (EEST)
- Există, există: „Cele mai frumoase femei sunt italiencele. Mai ales româncele.” :) --Turbojet 5 octombrie 2024 15:38 (EEST)
- Sunt mai multe: braziliancă-braziliană, chinezoaică-chineză, americancă-americană, norvegiancă-norvegiană, cehoaică-cehă, italiancă-italiană (la ultima nu am verificat dacă există). --Donarius (discuție) 5 octombrie 2024 13:59 (EEST)
- Probabil mai sunt, că folosesc demonimul. Nu mi-e clar de ce e greșit, dar le putem corecta în grup apoi. Strainu (دسستي) 5 octombrie 2024 13:55 (EEST)
- Australiancă-australiană. Sper să nu mai fie și altele. --Donarius (discuție) 5 octombrie 2024 13:52 (EEST)
- Am trecut la țară. Nu sună la fel de bine, dar merge. Strainu (دسستي) 6 octombrie 2024 19:10 (EEST)
Results from the survey about the tools on Wikimedia projects by the CEE Hub
modificareHi everyone,
During August 2024, we sent you a survey about the tools, so now we would like to bring to your attention the conclusions and results from the survey, which you can explore on this Meta page.
I hope you will enjoy exploring the mentioned tools on the page, along with other conclusions from the survey. Thanks for your time, and we will continue working on this important topic. --MediaWiki message delivery (discuție) 7 octombrie 2024 15:10 (EEST)
Bună! Știi cumva cum s-a ajuns de la Kresna la Chiresna? Cele două denumiri sunt exact la fel în bulgară («Кресна»). Probabil cea din urmă pagină trebuie redenumită la Kresna (arie protejată). // Gikü vorbe fapte 7 octombrie 2024 15:38 (EEST)
- Are buguri transliteratorul meu. WP:TRANSLIT zice K = "chi" înainte de ь, probabil nu am verificat corect cazul ăsta. Strainu (دسستي) 7 octombrie 2024 15:43 (EEST)
- @Gikü având în vedere redenumirea de la Mesta_(arie_protejată) poate vrei să te uiți și la WP:TRANSLIT dacă tabelele sunt scrise toate cu caracterele care trebuie, că eu de acolo le-am copiat. Strainu (دسستي) 7 octombrie 2024 15:52 (EEST)
- În secțiunile rusă, bulgară și ucraineană nu am găsit greșeli. // Gikü vorbe fapte 7 octombrie 2024 15:57 (EEST)
- @Gikü având în vedere redenumirea de la Mesta_(arie_protejată) poate vrei să te uiți și la WP:TRANSLIT dacă tabelele sunt scrise toate cu caracterele care trebuie, că eu de acolo le-am copiat. Strainu (دسستي) 7 octombrie 2024 15:52 (EEST)
Descurcă te rog ițele, inclusiv la WD, între Srеdna gora (caracter chirilic în poziția a treia) și Sredna gora. Mulțumesc. // Gikü vorbe fapte 7 octombrie 2024 15:05 (EEST)
- Încă o pereche: Chiotlеnschia planina (caracter chirilic în poziția a șaptea) vs. Kotlenska planina. Al doilea titlu e transliterat corect. // Gikü vorbe fapte 7 octombrie 2024 16:09 (EEST)
- Și Suha rеchia (caracter chirilic în poziția a șaptea) vs. Suha reka. // Gikü vorbe fapte 7 octombrie 2024 16:24 (EEST)
- Nu e nimic de descurcat, sunt diferite. E povestea cu protecții diferite de care spuneam aici. Trebuie doar transliterat corect. Strainu (دسستي) 7 octombrie 2024 16:27 (EEST)
- Oricum trebuie să le dezambiguizezi cumva, denumirea trebuie să fie aceeași (a doua variantă e corectă în toate cele trei cazuri).
- Judecând după Special:Diff/16533250 transliteratorul tău atribuie „a” pentru «ъ», în loc de „ă”. Ai posibilitate să verifici alte titluri cu «ъ» în original, din cele create de bot? // Gikü vorbe fapte 7 octombrie 2024 16:31 (EEST)
- Acum nu am acces la cod, diseară mă uit. Pe astea le redenumesc eu. Strainu (دسستي) 7 octombrie 2024 16:33 (EEST)
- Mulțumesc. Mai verific 6 pagini care conțin „e” chirilic în titlu și voi continua cu alte litere chirilice, unde bănuiesc că nu o să mai găsesc nimic. Keep you posted. // Gikü vorbe fapte 7 octombrie 2024 16:41 (EEST)
- Acum nu am acces la cod, diseară mă uit. Pe astea le redenumesc eu. Strainu (دسستي) 7 octombrie 2024 16:33 (EEST)
Srеbarna (caracter chirilic în a treia poziție; „a” din a cincea poziție trebuie să fie „ă”) și Rezervația naturală Srebărna ar putea fi unul și același lucru? // Gikü vorbe fapte 7 octombrie 2024 17:03 (EEST)
- Nu, prima e protecție europeană, a doua națională. Cel mai simplu e să te uiți la suprafețe - 1400 ha (14 km²) prima, 6 km² a doua. Strainu (دسستي) 7 octombrie 2024 17:12 (EEST)
- În mod normal, dacă una ar fi inclusă în cealaltă aș zice să păstrăm câte un articol, problema e că la majoritatea sunt mici diferențe și la specii, și la suprafețe. Strainu (دسستي) 7 octombrie 2024 17:15 (EEST)
- Atât timp cât dispare titlul greșit, nu am o părere vizavi de cu sau fără articol pentru aia cu protecție europeană. Mulțam. // Gikü vorbe fapte 7 octombrie 2024 17:17 (EEST)
- În mod normal, dacă una ar fi inclusă în cealaltă aș zice să păstrăm câte un articol, problema e că la majoritatea sunt mici diferențe și la specii, și la suprafețe. Strainu (دسستي) 7 octombrie 2024 17:15 (EEST)
Wikidata weekly summary #648
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week leading up to 2024-10-07. Please help Translate. Missed the previous one?
See issue #647</translate>
<translate>Events</translate> <translate>* Upcoming:
- Wikidata Day 2024 at the Pratt Institute Manhattan Campus, New York - To celebrate Wikidata's 12th Birthday, a mini-conference with beginner workshops, lightning talks and keynote speeches will be held. October 26, 11am - 5pm EDT (UTC-4). More info, registration and full address on this Wikipedia event page.
- The Wikidata Days 2024 in Bologna, Italy will take place on November 8th and 9th. Its program revolves around Wikidata for libraries and academia, and features a wide range of Wikidata-enthusiastic librarians and researchers from Italy. Registration is open until October 31st.
- The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16th October 2024 at 18:00 CEST in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
- Scholia hackathon on Oct 18-20, aimed at addressing changes related to the Wikidata graph split
- Intangible Cultural Heritage on Wikidata - Hosted by Wikimedia Community Malta (WCM), November 8, 2024 18:00 - 19:00 CEST, Malta Fairs and Conference Centre (MFCC) in Ta’ Qali, Malta
- Edit-A-Thon: 50 States of Comics - Ohio, take part in this virtual event held October 10, 10:00 - 16:00 EST (UTC-5).</translate>
<translate>Press, articles, blog posts, videos</translate> <translate>* Blogs
- Wikidata is a giant crosswalk file dbreunig.com describes how with a little DuckDB and Ruby and data from Wikidata, you can produce a cross-walk file of geographic entities.
- Videos
- (ru) Wikidata Reconciliation Service - This video shows how to add QID's to a large number of person-entities, add descriptions and search by full name and years of life. Wikidata reconciliation for OR (Script: Github:Podbrushkin)
- (fr) Data recovery on Wikidata for the DataViz project - PhilippGam presents the various methods to extract and sort data from Wikidata and use the wikidataMultiSearch tool.
- Bridging the Digital Scriptorium Data Model and Wikidata to Expand Reuse of Manuscript Metadata Rose McCandless gives this lighning talk at the LD4 2024 Conference.
- Notebooks
<translate>Tool of the week</translate>
- (fr) wikidata MultiSearch - search for a list of elements in Wikidata. A GPLv3 licenced tool built by Philippe Gambette allows you to search for a list of words in Wikidata and retrieve some associated Wikidata properties.
<translate>Other Noteworthy Stuff</translate>
- Are you building applications or services with Wikidata's data? We'd love to hear from you to help us figure out the future of accessing Wikidata's data.
- Wikidata: Event Organizers - If you are organizing or thinking about planning a Wikidata event, this new page listing the additional User rights the user-role 'event organizer' has will be a valuable resource. Including the process for applying for permission rights.
<translate>Newest properties and property proposals to review</translate>
<translate>* Newest properties:
- General datatypes:</translate>
- handwriting example (sample image of the person's handwriting)
- objects of occurrence have role (role that objects of this occurrence take on in the context of this occurrence. (For selectional restrictions, use "object class of occurrence" (P12913) instead.))
- agents of action have role (role that agents of this action take on in the context of this action. (For selectional restrictions, use "agent class of action" (P12994) instead. ))
- agent class of action (class of items that may initiate this action or class of actions (For roles filled by agents of an action, use "agents of action have role" (P12993) instead))
- agent of action (particular item that initiates this action or class of actions)
- characteristic of ((qualifier only) statement value is a characteristic, quality, property, or state of this qualifier value)
- has kanji reading (phonetic reading or pronunciation of the kanji)
- publication type of scholarly work (Publication type of scholarly work)
- leased to (person or organisation that holds or was granted a lease on the subject)
- magazine capacity (number of projectiles or objects in the magazine feeding a weapon or tool)
- General datatypes:</translate>
<translate>** External identifiers:</translate> Finnish Business ID, Prosocour person ID, Stadtwiki Karlsruhe ID, Athletics New Zealand athlete ID, Encyclopedia of Tunisian Women person ID, LMFDB knowl ID, ACUM performer ID, ACUM creator/publisher ID, ACUM Work ID, ACUM album ID, culture.ru organization ID, Hindustan Times topic ID, Newgrounds submission ID, Storia della civiltà europea ID, Encyclopedia of Brno History literature ID, Linked Open Vocabularies ID, Ontobee ID, typeset.io journal ID, NooSFere editorial collection ID, pomniky.npmk.cz ID, Dictionary of guerrillas and anti-Franco resistance fighters ID, e-LIS publication ID, GameReactor company ID, Latgales dati person ID, FantLab artist ID, RedBA Granada authority ID, NWIS site ID, MetalTabs.com band ID, Koha Kütüphane ID, HA! artwork ID, France television program ID, Radio France program ID, Grand Est inventory ID, Norwegian Media Authority's film rating ID, Historical Encyclopedia of Siberia ID, Münzkabinett ID, MyWaifuList character ID, Kramerius of Czech Digital Library UUID, European Parliament document ID, Western Australian Biographical Index, beniabbandonati (detailed sheet) ID, beniabbandonati (summary sheet) ID, Biblioteka Nauki article ID, Biblioteka Nauki journal ID, Biblioteka Nauki book ID, Biblioteka Nauki publisher ID, PNM Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom person ID, DDB person ID <translate>* New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:</translate>
- Larval host plant (Larval host plant - used only for insects - subclass of P1034)
- chemical formula (Description of chemical compound giving element symbols and counts)
- mode of reproduction (ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings)
- health points (health or armor points of this video game, board game or role-playing game character)
- damage (damage value of this video game weapon, ability or character)
- male mean age (male mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}})
- female mean age (female mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}})
- Mummy of a person (mummy of a person)
- WPBSA com player ID (Identifier for an athlete on the main website of WPBSA)
- JLPT level (difficulty of word by the level of JLPT)
- beer style (Classification of a beer based on its style)
- has forks (Notable software forks of this software)
- Monument Counter ID (Digital memorial for women killed by violence)
- General datatypes:</translate>
<translate>** External identifiers:</translate> case id (mainland China), BioMed Central journal ID, FightTime fighters ID, Korean Basketball League ID, Identifiant L'Humanité d’un sujet, Chinese Basketball Association ID2, KISTI institute ID, Hlídač státu subject ID, Acervo de Literatura Digital Mato-Grossense Person ID, Cihai encyclopedia entry ID, Cihai dictionary entry ID, Duocet Wiki of Plants ID, Dwelly entry ID, Indo-Tibetan Lexical Resource ID, A digital concordance of the R̥gveda ID, vardnica.aizpute.lv ID, Identifiant CIRDOC d'un auteur ou d'une autrice, Identifiant CIRDOC d'un document, Department of Defense Identification Code, Identifiant d'un document audiovisuel dans le catalogue de l'Inathèque, LWW journal ID, BAHRA ID, World Historical Gazetteer place ID, Diccionario biográfico de Castilla-La Mancha ID, AniSearch person ID, identifiant Babelio d'un sujet, Identifiant d'une personne sur Madelen, ITTF PTT ID, Push Square series ID, VG247 series ID, dtf.ru person ID
<translate>You can comment on all open property proposals!</translate>
<translate>Did you know?
- Query examples:</translate>
<translate>* Newest WikiProjects:
- WikiProject Highlights:
- Lingnan University Library: Wikidata Pilot Project - Creating and improving entries for Lingnan University academic staff, as well as generating entries for the Library's digital collections and Lingnan theses and dissertations.
- French Literary Prizes - Aims to coordinate the development of a database on French literary prizes (list of prizes, jury members, list of winners)
- Cycling: 2025 Races - documenting the the planned Cycling races for 2025.
- Newest database reports: Abuse filter effectiveness - This DB report compiles a variety of statistics on combating vandalism.</translate>
<translate>Development
- Data access:
- We have published a survey to better understand the future needs of application developers who want to work with Wikidata's data. Please take part if you are developing applications or services using data from Wikidata.
- We are analyzing query logs to better understand which queries could be moved to other services in the future.
- Design system: We continued migrating the Query Builder and Special:NewLexeme from Wikit to Codex</translate>
<translate>You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.</translate>
<translate>Weekly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
- 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!</translate>
Tech News: 2024-41
modificareLatest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
- Communities can now request installation of Automoderator on their wiki. Automoderator is an automated anti-vandalism tool that reverts bad edits based on scores from the new "Revert Risk" machine learning model. You can read details about the necessary steps for installation and configuration. [4]
Updates for editors
- Translators in wikis where the mobile experience of Content Translation is available, can now customize their articles suggestion list from 41 filtering options when using the tool. This topic-based article suggestion feature makes it easy for translators to self-discover relevant articles based on their area of interest and translate them. You can try it with your mobile device. [5]
- View all 12 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- It is now possible for
<syntaxhighlight>
code blocks to offer readers a "Copy" button if thecopy=1
attribute is set on the tag. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements. [6] - Customized copyright footer messages on all wikis will be updated. The new versions will use wikitext markup instead of requiring editing raw HTML. [7]
- Later this month, temporary accounts will be rolled out on several pilot wikis. The final list of the wikis will be published in the second half of the month. If you maintain any tools, bots, or gadgets on these 11 wikis, and your software is using data about IP addresses or is available for logged-out users, please check if it needs to be updated to work with temporary accounts. Guidance on how to update the code is available.
- Rate limiting has been enabled for the code review tools Gerrit and GitLab to address ongoing issues caused by malicious traffic and scraping. Clients that open too many concurrent connections will be restricted for a few minutes. This rate limiting is managed through nftables firewall rules. For more details, see Wikitech's pages on Firewall, GitLab limits and Gerrit operations.
- Five new wikis have been created:
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Fost administrator
modificareUtilizatorul @Vali, fost admin, apare cu modificările nepatrulate. Dacă se poate, vă rog să-i readăugați statutul de patrulă automată. Mulțumesc. Gdaniel111 (discuție) 8 octombrie 2024 15:03 (EEST)
- Rezolvat Strainu (دسستي) 8 octombrie 2024 15:54 (EEST)
Bună ziua. Modificați vă rog atributele inline styles să fie background-color: var(--background-color-progressive-subtle, #eaf3ff); color: inherit;
în loc de background: #e8f0ff;
, pentru dark mode? Mulțumesc. Apropo, este vreun gadget sau vreo metodă prin care să se afle formatele folosite/transcluse în spațiile Mediawiki și cele Special? Cum ar fi aici, sau aici. — Valentin JJ. 9 octombrie 2024 15:35 (EEST)
- Am modificat. Pentru a găsi formatele, puteți căuta textul în toate spațiile de nume cu
insource:
în față (exemplu) Strainu (دسستي) 9 octombrie 2024 15:51 (EEST)
Întrebare de la Caelis Borrini (12 octombrie 2024 15:56)
modificareBună ziua,doresc să-mi creez propria pagină,de pe wikipedia. --Caelis Borrini (discuție) 12 octombrie 2024 15:56 (EEST)
Wikidata weekly summary #649
modificareweek leading up to 2024-10-14. Missed the previous one? See issue #648
- Upcoming:
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session 15 October, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 15 October, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter). https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1729008000 Christa Strickler will be our first Project Series lead with her joint project with the Wikidata Religion & Theology Community of Practice to contribute biographical data to Wikidata from the IRFA database https://irfa.paris/en/en-learn-about-a-missionary/ using the Mix’n’Match tool. We are excited to learn more about this project, provide a forum for discussion and shared learning, and lend a hand while building new skills. Event page: [13]
- The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16th October 2024 at 18:00 CEST in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
- Wikidata:Twelfth Birthday: We already have 30 events scheduled on the list 😍. As a reminder, when your event is ready, don't forget to:
- create a wikipage with more information about the event, participants list, etc.
- add your event to the global calendar and the map, following the instructions here: Wikidata:Twelfth Birthday/Run an event/Schedule
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Small data, slow data − a SNAIL approach to Wikidata: discusses the value of small, carefully curated datasets in the era of big data. It emphasizes the importance of taking a methodical, "snail-paced" approach to data collection and analysis, which can lead to more meaningful and accurate insights. The blogpost also highlights how this approach can complement the broader trends of big data, ensuring that detailed, high-quality data is not overlooked.
- Papers
- "WoolNet: Finding and Visualising Paths in Knowledge Graphs" given two or more entities requested by a user, the system finds and visualises paths that connect these entities, forming a topical subgraph of Wikidata (Torres Gutiérrez and Hogan)
- Videos
- Introductory workshop to Wikidata within the framework of the Latin America Contest in Wikidata 2024 (in Italian)
- GeoPython 2024: Bridging Worlds: Python-Powered Integration of Wikidata and OpenStreetMap: This talk explores Python-powered tools that integrate Wikidata with OpenStreetMap, allowing users to link entries between the two platforms to enhance geospatial data accuracy while navigating legal and ethical challenges of cross-platform data sharing.
- LD4 2024 Conference: Wikidata and Open Data: Enhancing the Hausa Community's Digital Presence
- Dynamic Mapping using Collaborative Knowledge Graphs: Real-Time SKOS Mapping from Wikidata: This presentation introduces a workflow using SPARQL queries to dynamically map live Wikidata data to SKOS concepts, featuring a Python tool that converts CSV outputs into RDF triples for integration into linked data environments and knowledge graphs, emphasizing real-time data retrieval and interoperability.
- How to add location coordinates to Wikidata Items (in Dagbanli)
- Clean-up of problematic Dagbani lexemes: Wikidata:Lexicographical data/Documentation/Languages/dag#Maintenance_tasks (in Dagbanli)
- How to link Wikidata Items to Wikipedia Articles
- Best Practices to editing Dagbani Lexemes on Wikidata
- Podcasts
- Could making Wikidata 'human' readable lead to better AI?: Lydia Pintscher (WMDE), Portfolio Lead Product Manager at Wikidata Deutschland, discussed a new project aimed at making Wikidata more 'human' readable for Large Language Models (LLMs), which could improve AI reliability by giving these models access to high-quality, human-curated data from Wikidata.
- Notebooks
Tool of the week
- Elemwala (এলেমওয়ালা) (https://elemwala.toolforge.org): is a proof-of-concept interface that allows you to input abstract content and get natural language text in a given output language. There may well be errors with particular inputs, and the text may not be quite as natural as you might expect, but that's where your improvements to your language's lexemes, other Wikidata items, and the tool's source code come in!
- mlscores: Tool for calculating multilinguality score of Wikidata items (including properties). E.g. for Wikidata (Q2013), the scores are - en: 99.66%, fr: 89.49%, es: 84.07%, pt: 68.47%. For instance of (P31), the scores are - en: 99.86%, fr: 87.12%, es: 80.83%, pt: 61.37%.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Launch of WikiProject Deprecate P642: The goal of this project is to prepare for deprecation, and eventual removal, of the property of (P642). Currently, of (P642) is labeled as "being deprecated", meaning its use is still allowed, but discouraged. From a peak of around 900,000 uses, the property now has around 700,000 uses (see status here). Our goal is to reduce that as much as possible in a systematic way, while ensuring that appropriate properties exist to replace all valid uses of of (P642). The latter is key to officially deprecating the property. Before removing the property, we want to get as close to zero uses as possible.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- characteristic of ((qualifier only) statement value is a characteristic, quality, property, or state of this qualifier value)
- has kanji reading (phonetic reading or pronunciation of the kanji)
- publication type of scholarly work (Publication type of scholarly work)
- leased to (person or organisation that holds or was granted a lease on the subject)
- magazine capacity (number of projectiles or objects in the magazine feeding a weapon or tool)
- External identifiers: Newgrounds submission ID, Storia della civiltà europea ID, Encyclopedia of Brno History literature ID, Linked Open Vocabularies ID, Ontobee ID, typeset.io journal ID, NooSFere editorial collection ID, pomniky.npmk.cz ID, Dictionary of guerrillas and anti-Franco resistance fighters ID, e-LIS publication ID, GameReactor company ID, Latgales dati person ID, FantLab artist ID, RedBA Granada authority ID, NWIS site ID, MetalTabs.com band ID, Koha Kütüphane ID, HA! artwork ID, France television program ID, Radio France program ID, Grand Est inventory ID, Norwegian Media Authority's film rating ID, Historical Encyclopedia of Siberia ID, Münzkabinett ID, MyWaifuList character ID, Kramerius of Czech Digital Library UUID, European Parliament document ID, Western Australian Biographical Index, beniabbandonati (detailed sheet) ID, beniabbandonati (summary sheet) ID, Biblioteka Nauki article ID, Biblioteka Nauki journal ID, Biblioteka Nauki book ID, Biblioteka Nauki publisher ID, PNM Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom person ID, DDB person ID, CIRDOC publication ID, CIRDOC author ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- chemical formula (Description of chemical compound giving element symbols and counts)
- mode of reproduction (ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings)
- health points (health or armor points of this video game, board game or role-playing game character)
- damage (damage value of this video game weapon, ability or character)
- male mean age (male mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}})
- female mean age (female mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}})
- Mummy of a person (mummy of a person)
- WPBSA com player ID (Identifier for an athlete on the main website of WPBSA)
- JLPT level (difficulty of word by the level of JLPT)
- beer style (Classification of a beer based on its style)
- has forks (Notable software forks of this software)
- Monument Counter ID (Digital memorial for women killed by violence)
- most populous settlement (city, town, or other settlement with the largest population in this area (country, state, county, continent, etc.))
- FAO fungal entity ID (identifier from FAO ontology for fungal gross anatomy)
- TEES ID (Dictionary of Turkish literature works)
- bais (Indicates a specific form of bias present in a media source, organization, or document, such as false balance, slant, or omission, affecting the representation of information.)
- TDK lexeme ID (Dictionary created by the [[Q1569712|Turkish Language Association]])
- Atatürk Ansiklopedisi ID (Online Turkish encyclopedia created by [[Q6062914]] and [[Q19610584]])
- Eurotopics ID (A database containing data on European media.)
- Stated in unreliable source (used in the references field to refer to the database that is considered a unreliable source in which the claim is made)
- External identifiers: case id (mainland China), BioMed Central journal ID, FightTime fighters ID, Korean Basketball League ID, Identifiant L'Humanité d’un sujet, Chinese Basketball Association ID2, Hlídač státu subject ID, Acervo de Literatura Digital Mato-Grossense Person ID, Cihai encyclopedia entry ID, Cihai dictionary entry ID, Duocet Wiki of Plants ID, Dwelly entry ID, Indo-Tibetan Lexical Resource ID, A digital concordance of the R̥gveda ID, vardnica.aizpute.lv ID, Department of Defense Identification Code, Identifiant d'un document audiovisuel dans le catalogue de l'Inathèque, LWW journal ID, BAHRA ID, World Historical Gazetteer place ID, Diccionario biográfico de Castilla-La Mancha ID, AniSearch person ID, identifiant Babelio d'un sujet, Identifiant d'une personne sur Madelen, ITTF PTT ID, Push Square series ID, VG247 series ID, dtf.ru person ID, Identifiant Libération d’un sujet, NLI Newspaper Collection ID, Enciclopedia bresciana ID, obastan.com dictionary IDs, Israel Railways Corporation Ltd station number, Spirit of Metal band ID, Rate Your Music track ID, Legaseriea.it player ID, Identifiant Actu.fr d’un sujet, Identifiant TF1 info d’un sujet, Identifiant RTL d’un sujet, Identifiant France Info d’un sujet, graphclasses.org ID, identifiant L’Équipe d'une équipe de basketball, identifiant L'Équipe d'un basketteur, eHLFL ID, Journalistikon.de-ID, NRW-Archivportal-ID, Taiwan Railways station number, DVIDS unit ID, Taiwan Professional Basketball League ID
- General datatypes:
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects:
- PatternsKilkenny - Patterns were devotional days on the day of the patron saint of a parish or area or at least an annually occurring day when the people of the locality held their personal devotions in a certain pattern (hence the name), i.e. "doing the rounds" around trees or other landmarks at the sacred site. This project tries to collate the records and memories of these patterns for County Kilkenny.
- Deprecate P642 - The goal of this project is to prepare for deprecation, and eventual removal, of the property of (P642).
- AIDS Walks - This project aims to collaborate with Wiki editors across the globe to highlight AIDS Walks anywhere in the world.
- Temples in Roman Britain - The aim of the Wikiproject Temples in Roman Britain is to record and catalog sacred spaces in the Roman province Britannia between 43 to 409 CE. By sacred spaces, we include (for the moment) only built structures such as temples, sanctuaries and shrines.
- LinkedReindeersAlta - Wikidata Entry: WikiProject LinkedReindeersAlta (Q130442625) supported by the Research Squirrel Engineers Network (Q73901970). Commons Category:Category:Rock Art of Alta
- Nihongo - The goal of this project is to capture the Japanese Language Japanese (Q5287) in its entirety on Wikidata. We aim to give advice and establish standards for representing Japanese words as lexemes.
- WikiProject Highlights: Cycling/2025 teams
- Newest database reports: User:Ivan A. Krestinin/Vandalized Commons links
- Showcase Items: Queen of Katwe (Q20921603) - 2016 film directed by Mira Nair
- Showcase Lexemes: kuiri (L311934) - "cook" in Esperanto
Development
- EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on making it possible to find an EntitySchema by its label or aliases when linking to an EntitySchema in a statement (phab:T375641)
- Design system: We are continuing the work on migrating the Query Builder from Wikit to Codex
- REST API: We finished the work on language fallback support in the REST API (phab:T371605)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
Weekly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
- 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!
Tech News: 2024-42
modificareLatest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
- The Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow) is starting to be removed. This extension is unmaintained and causes issues. It will be replaced by DiscussionTools, which is used on any regular talk page. A first set of wikis are being contacted. These wikis are invited to stop using Flow, and to move all Flow boards to sub-pages, as archives. At these wikis, a script will move all Flow pages that aren't a sub-page to a sub-page automatically, starting on 22 October 2024. On 28 October 2024, all Flow boards at these wikis will be set in read-only mode. [14][15]
- WMF's Search Platform team is working on making it easier for readers to perform text searches in their language. A change last week on over 30 languages makes it easier to find words with accents and other diacritics. This applies to both full-text search and to types of advanced search such as the hastemplate and incategory keywords. More technical details (including a few other minor search upgrades) are available. [16]
- View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, EditCheck was installed at Russian Wikipedia, and fixes were made for some missing user interface styles.
Updates for technical contributors
- Editors who use the Toolforge tool Earwig's Copyright Violation Detector will now be required to log in with their Wikimedia account before running checks using the "search engine" option. This change is needed to help prevent external bots from misusing the system. Thanks to Chlod for these improvements. [17]
- Phabricator users can create tickets and add comments on existing tickets via Email again. Sending email to Phabricator has been fixed. [18]
- Some HTML elements in the interface are now wrapped with a
<bdi>
element, to make our HTML output more aligned with Web standards. More changes like this will be coming in future weeks. This change might break some tools that rely on the previous HTML structure of the interface. Note that relying on the HTML structure of the interface is not recommended and might break at any time. [19]
In depth
- The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available. This edition includes: updates on Wikimedia's authentication system, research to simplify feature development in the MediaWiki platform, updates on Parser Unification and MathML rollout, and more.
- The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available. This edition include: research about improving topic suggestions related to countries, improvements to PHPUnit tests, and more.
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Semnătură
modificareVă scriu aici pentru că nu are legătură cu discuția anterioară. Când răspund unui mesaj (prin click pe butonul Răspunde) și îl salvez, semnătura mea cade pe un rând mai jos și nu în continuarea răspunsului cum ar fi normal. E o setare greșită în preferințele mele sau e o anomalie generală? Cum s-ar putea rezolva? Donarius (discuție) 17 octombrie 2024 12:31 (EEST)
- S-a întâmplat și acum? Eu de exemplu văđ semnătura OK, după mesaj. Strainu (دسستي) 17 octombrie 2024 21:09 (EEST)
- Pe mobil e OK, voi verifica mâine pe laptop. Donarius (discuție) 17 octombrie 2024 21:27 (EEST)
- Test. Donarius (discuție) 18 octombrie 2024 13:42 (EEST) Da, se pare că acum merge.
- Pe mobil e OK, voi verifica mâine pe laptop. Donarius (discuție) 17 octombrie 2024 21:27 (EEST)
Casetă pagină protejată
modificareBună ziua. Am tot încercat să adaptez pentru dark mode caseta din antetul paginilor protejate, însă nu reușesc să găsesc formatul în sine (exemplu, caseta din antetul paginii apare roz și pe dark mode). Singura soluție pe care am găsit-o ar fi adăugarea codului de aici (tot ce este după linia 115) la Mediawiki:Common.css. Mulțumesc. — Valentin JJ. 18 octombrie 2024 17:16 (EEST)
- Salut, cred că csx-message e clasa de care să te iei, ca să nu reproduci soluția peste tot. Ce zici de soluția de la MediaWiki:Gadget-dark-mode.css cu invert? Strainu (دسستي) 18 octombrie 2024 17:40 (EEST)
- Este bună și acea soluție. Totuși, nu știu cum ar putea fi aplicată individual, întrucât codul efectiv care face caseta roz este preluat de la MediaWiki:Common.css, la linia 894... — Valentin JJ. 18 octombrie 2024 18:55 (EEST)
- Am scos culoarea de acolo, vedem ce iese. Strainu (دسستي) 18 octombrie 2024 22:04 (EEST)
- Este bună și acea soluție. Totuși, nu știu cum ar putea fi aplicată individual, întrucât codul efectiv care face caseta roz este preluat de la MediaWiki:Common.css, la linia 894... — Valentin JJ. 18 octombrie 2024 18:55 (EEST)
Wikidata weekly summary #650
modificareweek leading up to 2024-10-21. Missed the previous one? See issue #649
Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Addshore (RfP scheduled to end after 23 October 2024 18:03 UTC)
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- CarbonBot - (1) Add default mul labels to given and family names when the item has an existing default label with a mul language (2) Remove duplicated aliases matching the items mul label, when the item has a native label in with a mul language. As mul has not been fully adopted, a limited of aliases would be modified each day to ensure existing workflows are not disrupted. It is expected that these tasks will apply to roughly 800,000 given and family names.
- So9qBot 10 - Add first line (P1922) with the first line of the paper to all scientific papers which has a full text link or where the abstract is available.
- Upcoming: We are getting ready for Wikidata:Twelfth Birthday on the 29th October. We already have 30 events scheduled on the list 😍. As a reminder, when your event is ready, don't forget to (1) create a wikipage with more information about the event, participants list, etc. (2) add your event to the global calendar and the map, following the instructions here: Wikidata:Twelfth Birthday/Run an event/Schedule
- Past:
- Wikidata + Wikibase office hour log (16 October 2024)
- Scholia hackathon (18-20 October) exploring technical options for handling the Wikidata graph split
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Why and How I developed Wikidata Multilinguality Calculator - mlscores? - a Wikidata multilingual calculator to facilitate data queries in multiple languages, enhancing accessibility and usability for non-English speakers.
- Papers
- Notebooks: Who are the most frequent guests of the show Real Time with Bill Maher?
- Videos
- Wikidata Lexicographical Data | Lucas Werkmeister - Introduction to Wikidata Lexicographical Data to Dagbani Wikimedians]
- Why is Wikidata important for Wikipedia in Spanish (in Spanish) - "In this workshop we will learn about the value that Wikidata can bring us when working on eswiki articles. We will learn how knowledge is shared between platforms, and how it can save a lot of work for both the Spanish Wikipedia community and other people working on an article on another Wikipedia."
- Empowering Lexicographical Data Contributions on Wikidata with Lexica - "In this session, participants will explore the fascinating world of lexicographical data on Wikidata and learn how to contribute meaningfully using Lexica, a tool designed for easy micro-edits to Lexemes from mobile devices. We will start with a brief introduction to lexicographical data and importance of linking Lexemes to Items. Next, we’ll dive into Lexica, showcasing its key features and providing a step-by-step guide on linking Lexemes to Items on Wikidata. This hands-on workshop is open to both experienced contributors and newcomers, empowering everyone with the knowledge and skills to make impactful contributions to Wikidata’s lexicographical data. By the end of the session, participants will be ready to use Lexica to enrich language data on Wikidata."
- Wikidata ontology, controlled vocabularies and Wikidata Graph Builder - This video talks about the Wikidata ontology, how to connect controlled vocabularies to Wikidata, and how to use the Wikidata Graph Builder
- How to use Wikidata for GLAM institutions... - WMCEEM 2024 Istanbul - How to use Wikidata for GLAM institutions: Case Study for museums in Türkiye and person data
- Hidden Histories: Illuminating LGBTQ+ archives at the University of Las Vegas, Nevada using Wikidata - "The University of Nevada, Las Vegas Special Collections and Archives has been strategically working to increase the discoverability, visibility, and access to collections related to marginalized communities in Southern Nevada. In the first stage of this grant-funded Wiki project, over 60 archival collections and 80 oral histories, including related people, businesses, and events associated with the Las Vegas LGBTQ+ community, have been contributed to Wikidata. In this presentation, the author continues this work by introducing UNLV's Special Collections Wiki project, "LGBTQ Hidden Histories." The presentation will discuss ongoing efforts to create, expand, and enrich linked data about the Nevada LGBTQ+ community, address challenges faced during entity extraction using archival materials, and conclude with a linked data visualization exercise using Wikiframe-VG (Wikiframe Visual Graph)."
- Africa Wiki Women Wikidata Birthday First Session
- Africa Wiki Women Wikidata session on creating SPARQL Queries
Tool of the week
- User:Ainali/PreViewStats.js - is a Userscript that gives a quick glance at the pageviews in the header (and links to the full views). If you install it on your global.js on meta, it works on all projects).
- Wikidata:ProVe - (Automated PROvenance VErification of Knowledge Graphs against Textual Sources) - is a tool for helping editors improve the references of Wikidata Items.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Deepesha Burse joins WMDE as Developer Advocate for Wikibase Suite
- Wikibase Suite: Patch releases as the first round of patch releases for all Wikibase Suite products, including all WBS Images as well as WBS Deploy
- The CampaignEvents extension is now live on Wikidata! This means that if you are an event organizer, you can use several new tools to help manage your events more easily. By getting the Event Organizer right, you can:
- Use simple on-wiki registration for your events.
- Integrate Outreach Dashboard with your event registration page. (see demo)
- Communicate more easily with your registered participants. (see demo)
- Make your events more visible to other editors through the Special:AllEvents page.
- Find potential participants for your next events. (see demo), and much more!
- With this extension, you can also see all global events (past, present, and future) on the Special:AllEvents page, but only events using the event registration feature will appear there. If you are an organizer and want to use these new tools, follow the instructions on the Wikidata:Event_Organizers page to request the Event Organizer right.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- characteristic of ((qualifier only) statement value is a characteristic, quality, property, or state of this qualifier value)
- has kanji reading (phonetic reading or pronunciation of the kanji)
- publication type of scholarly work (type of this scholarly work (e.g. “systematic review”, “proceedings”, etc.))
- leased to (person or organisation that holds or was granted a lease on the subject)
- magazine capacity (number of projectiles or objects in the magazine feeding a weapon or tool)
- Newest External identifiers: pomniky.npmk.cz ID, Dictionary of guerrillas and anti-Franco resistance fighters ID, e-LIS publication ID, GameReactor company ID, Latgales dati person ID, FantLab artist ID, RedBA Granada authority ID, NWIS site ID, MetalTabs.com band ID, Koha Kütüphane ID, HA! artwork ID, France television program ID, Radio France program ID, Grand Est inventory ID, Norwegian Media Authority's film rating ID, Historical Encyclopedia of Siberia ID, Münzkabinett ID, MyWaifuList character ID, Kramerius of Czech Digital Library UUID, European Parliament document ID, Western Australian Biographical Index, beniabbandonati (detailed sheet) ID, beniabbandonati (summary sheet) ID, Biblioteka Nauki article ID, Biblioteka Nauki journal ID, Biblioteka Nauki book ID, Biblioteka Nauki publisher ID, PNM Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom person ID, DDB person ID, CIRDOC publication ID, CIRDOC author ID, BAHRA ID, AniSearch person ID, Dwelly entry ID, Rate Your Music track ID, Spirit of Metal band ID, Madelen person ID, Babelio subject ID, Indo-Tibetan Lexical Resource ID, World Historical Gazetteer place ID, VG247 series ID, ITTF PTT ID, Lega Serie A player ID, Push Square series ID, LWW journal ID, Diccionario biográfico de Castilla-La Mancha ID, Enciclopedia bresciana ID, A digital concordance of the R̥gveda ID, Inathèque document ID, TEES ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- chemical formula (Description of chemical compound giving element symbols and counts)
- mode of reproduction (ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings)
- health points (health or armor points of this video game, board game or role-playing game character)
- damage (damage value of this video game weapon, ability or character)
- male mean age (male mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}})
- female mean age (female mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}})
- Mummy of a person (mummy of a person)
- WPBSA com player ID (Identifier for an athlete on the main website of WPBSA)
- JLPT level (difficulty of word by the level of JLPT)
- beer style (Classification of a beer based on its style)
- has forks (Notable software forks of this software)
- Monument Counter ID (Digital memorial for women killed by violence)
- most populous settlement (city, town, or other settlement with the largest population in this area (country, state, county, continent, etc.))
- FAO fungal entity ID (identifier from FAO ontology for fungal gross anatomy)
- bais (Indicates a specific form of bias present in a media source, organization, or document, such as false balance, slant, or omission, affecting the representation of information.)
- TDK lexeme ID (Dictionary created by the [[Q1569712|Turkish Language Association]])
- Atatürk Ansiklopedisi ID (Online Turkish encyclopedia created by [[Q6062914]] and [[Q19610584]])
- Eurotopics ID (A database containing data on European media.)
- Stated in unreliable source (used in the references field to refer to the database that is considered a unreliable source in which the claim is made)
- Google Plus code (Identifier for a location as seen on Google Maps)
- reversal of (reversal of, inversion of)
- rubrique d'une installation classée pour la protection de l'environnement ()
- New External identifier property proposals to review: case id (mainland China), BioMed Central journal ID, FightTime fighters ID, Korean Basketball League ID, Identifiant L'Humanité d’un sujet, Chinese Basketball Association ID2, Acervo de Literatura Digital Mato-Grossense Person ID, Cihai encyclopedia entry ID, Cihai dictionary entry ID, Duocet Wiki of Plants ID, vardnica.aizpute.lv ID, Department of Defense Identification Code, dtf.ru person ID, Identifiant Libération d’un sujet, NLI Newspaper Collection ID, obastan.com dictionary IDs, Israel Railways Corporation Ltd station number, Identifiant Actu.fr d’un sujet, Identifiant TF1 info d’un sujet, Identifiant RTL d’un sujet, Identifiant France Info d’un sujet, graphclasses.org ID, identifiant L’Équipe d'une équipe de basketball, identifiant L'Équipe d'un basketteur, eHLFL ID, Journalistikon.de-ID, NRW-Archivportal-ID, Taiwan Railways station number, DVIDS unit ID, Taiwan Professional Basketball League ID, Sapere.it Italian Dictionary ID, Acervo de Literatura Digital Mato-Grossense Work of Art, DDB institution ID, Steam tag ID, SWERIK Party ID, Songkick area ID, Damehåndbolddatabasen ID, KISTI institute ID, Identifiant Les Inrockuptibles d'un sujet, AELC author ID, Spirit of Metal IDs, Yandex Maps place ID, Finlandssvenska bebyggelsenamn ID, VK track ID, Enciclopedia medica ID, GERS ID, European Legislation Identifier, Danbooru tag, Digital LIMC ID, Health Facility Registry ID, GamersGlobal genre
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: Dominio Público en América Latina - The Public Domain in Latin America Wikiproject aims to improve the data available in Wikidata on authors and works of authorship in Latin America, with emphasis on copyright status to identify whether or not authors and their works are in the public domain.
- WikiProject Highlights:
- Newest database reports: Most used properties
- Showcase Items: Moana (Q18647981): 2016 American computer animated film (2024-10-21)
- Showcase Lexemes: rehbraun (L863492): German adjective, means "light brown with a slight reddish tinge"
Development
- Vector 2020: We’re working on improving Wikibase’s dark mode support somewhat (phab:T369385)
- We polished the automatic undo/redo messages to make them more useful (phab:T194402)
- Design system: We’re close to finishing migrating Special:NewLexeme to the Codex design system
- EntitySchemas: We’re working on searching EntitySchema values by label and alias (phab:T375641)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
Weekly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
- 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!
Tech News: 2024-43
modificareLatest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
- The Mobile Apps team has released an update to the iOS app's navigation, and it is now available in the latest App store version. The team added a new Profile menu that allows for easy access to editor features like Notifications and Watchlist from the Article view, and brings the "Donate" button into a more accessible place for users who are reading an article. This is the first phase of a larger planned navigation refresh to help the iOS app transition from a primarily reader-focused app, to an app that fully supports reading and editing. The Wikimedia Foundation has added more editing features and support for on-wiki communication based on volunteer requests in recent years.
Updates for editors
- Wikipedia readers can now download a browser extension to experiment with some early ideas on potential features that recommend articles for further reading, automatically summarize articles, and improve search functionality. For more details and to stay updated, check out the Web team's Content Discovery Experiments page and subscribe to their newsletter.
- Later this month, logged-out editors of these 12 wikis will start to have temporary accounts created. The list may slightly change - some wikis may be removed but none will be added. Temporary account is a new type of user account. It enhances the logged-out editors' privacy and makes it easier for community members to communicate with them. If you maintain any tools, bots, or gadgets on these 12 wikis, and your software is using data about IP addresses or is available for logged-out users, please check if it needs to be updated to work with temporary accounts. Guidance on how to update the code is available. Read more about the deployment plan across all wikis.
- View all 33 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the South Ndebele, Pannonian Rusyn, Obolo, Iban and Tai Nüa Wikipedia languages were created last week. [20][21][22][23][24]
- It is now possible to create functions on Wikifunctions using Wikidata lexemes, through the new Wikidata lexeme type launched last week. When you go to one of these functions, the user interface provides a lexeme selector that helps you pick a lexeme from Wikidata that matches the word you type. After hitting run, your selected lexeme is retrieved from Wikidata, transformed into a Wikidata lexeme type, and passed into the selected function. Read more about this in the latest Wikifunctions newsletter.
Updates for technical contributors
- Users of the Wikimedia sites can now format dates more easily in different languages with the new
{{#timef:…}}
parser function. For example,{{#timef:now|date|en}}
will show as "19 November 2024". Previously,{{#time:…}}
could be used to format dates, but this required knowledge of the order of the time and date components and their intervening punctuation.#timef
(or#timefl
for local time) provides access to the standard date formats that MediaWiki uses in its user interface. This may help to simplify some templates on multi-lingual wikis like Commons and Meta. [25][26] - Commons and Meta users can now efficiently retrieve the user's language using
{{USERLANGUAGE}}
instead of using{{int:lang}}
. [27] - The Product and Tech Advisory Council (PTAC) now has its pilot members with representation across Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America. They will work to address the Movement Strategy's Technology Council initiative of having a co-defined and more resilient technological platform. [28]
In depth
- The latest quarterly Growth newsletter is available. It includes: an upcoming Newcomer Homepage Community Updates module, new Community Configuration options, and details on new projects.
- The Wikimedia Foundation is now an official partner of the CVE program, which is an international effort to catalog publicly disclosed cybersecurity vulnerabilities. This partnership will allow the Security Team to instantly publish common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE) records that are affecting MediaWiki core, extensions, and skins, along with any other code the Foundation is a steward of.
- The Community Wishlist is now testing machine translations for Wishlist content. Volunteers can now read machine-translated versions of wishes and dive into discussions even before translators arrive to translate content.
Meetings and events
- 24 October - Wiki Education Speaker Series Webinar - Open Source Tech: Building the Wiki Education Dashboard, featuring Wikimedia interns and a Web developer in the panel.
- 20–22 December 2024 - Indic Wikimedia Hackathon Bhubaneswar 2024 in Odisha, India. A hackathon for community members, including developers, designers and content editors, to build technical solutions that improve contributors' experiences.
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