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March 2020 was a special month for me: 20,000+ edits on mediawiki.org, 6,000+ edits on wikidata.org, 1,000+ edits on commons.wikimedia.org and 29,000+ edits on all wikis run by WMF.

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

• The "recent edits" time period for page watchers is now 30 days. It used to be 180 days. This was a Community Wishlist Survey proposal.

Changes later this week

• An improved impact module will be available at Wikipedias. The impact module is a feature available to newcomers at their personal homepage. It will show their number of edits, how many readers their edited pages have, how many thanks they have received and similar things. It is also accessible by accessing Special:Impact.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 May. It will be on all wikis from 25 May (calendar).

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16:52, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

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

• Discussions
  • CEUR-WS (Task: CEUR-WS Semantification bot to be used on publishing Workshop proceedings via http://ceur-ws.org)
  • AcmiBot (Task: Sync links with ACMI API)

• Events
  • Past: The Wikimedia Hackathon took place on May 19-21 in Athens, Greece. Several Wikidata-related projects were presented during the showcase (notes, replay). You can also find more documentation on this page.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Papers
    • Melanie Conroy, Quantifying the Gap: The Gender Gap in French Writers’ Wikidata; Journal of Cultural Analytics Vol. 8, Issue 2, 2023May 11, 2023.
  • Videos
    • Queering Wikidata: Early Insights from the Wikidata Gender Diversity Project, Presentation by Daniele Metilli, Beatrice Melis, Marta Fioravanti, Chiara Paolini on May 17 in Queering Wikipedia 2023 (Video)
    • Making Queer Faces and Voices Visible and Audible Online: The role of Wikipedia and Wikidata, Presentation by John Samuel on May 17 in Queering Wikipedia 2023 (Video)
    • Ethical and Inclusive Data Modeling for Gender Representation in Wikidata: Lessons and Recommendations from the Personal Pronouns Project, Presentation by Arielle Rodriguez, Crystal Yragui, Alex Jung on May 17 in Queering Wikipedia 2023
  • “But what about representation?”: Finding Ethical Solutions and Best Practices for Gender Information in Wikidata, Discussion by Arielle Rodriguez, Crystal Yragui on May 17 in Queering Wikipedia 2023 (Video)

• Tool of the week
  • CreateNewEntity.js got improved to support up to 11 languages.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikimedia Deutschland is launching a laptop donation program to support Wikidata contributors with limited access to technology. If you've been actively contributing to Wikidata for at least a year, you can request a free laptop to support your work. WMDE Hardware Donation Program#Applying
  • Wikibase.Cloud data modeling research has been published. It shows user flows and pain points in the Data Modelling experience of Wikibase Cloud users in Q1/2023.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: L'Histoire par l'image ID, Napster release ID, ‎Xbox Games Store ID (Xbox 360), Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris author ID, Global Smash Roster fighter ID, RAWG developer ID, RAWG publisher ID, Qualigeo ID, Kress Collection Digital Archive ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • population by ethnic group (Part of a larger population isolated for statistical analysis)
      • points of bonus (point of bonus in a tournament, given according some conditions (such as minimum number of goals...))
    • External identifiers: Israel Composers' League composer ID, Stage 32 profile ID, kaino.kotus.fi identifiers, Radiomuseum.org company ID, Law Insider Legal Dictionary entry
  • Query example: Scottish waterbodies & how they're linked (source)

• Development
  • We continue working on modify data of labels of an Item in the Wikibase REST API. (phab:T332739)
  • We continued working on the new datatype for linking to EntitySchemas.
  • We are continuing to prepare various special pages for the mul language code.
  • We fixed a bug on Wikipedia and co where the "add interlanguage link dialog threw an error (phab:T337081)
  • We attended the Wikimedia hackathon.

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.

• 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) 14:52, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

• Citations that are automatically generated based on ISBN are currently broken. This affects citations made with the VisualEditor Automatic tab, and the use of the citoid API in gadgets and user scripts. Work is ongoing to restore this feature.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 May. It will be on all wikis from 18 May (calendar).
• Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Gorontalo Wikipedia, Hausa Wikipedia, Hakka Chinese Wikipedia, Hawaiian Wikipedia, Fiji Hindi Wikipedia, Croatian Wikipedia, Upper Sorbian Wikipedia, Haitian Creole Wikipedia, Interlingua Wikipedia, Interlingue Wikipedia, Igbo Wikipedia, Iloko Wikipedia, Ingush Wikipedia, Ido Wikipedia, Icelandic Wikipedia, Inuktitut Wikipedia, Jamaican Patois Wikipedia, Javanese Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally.

Future changes

• There is a recently formed team at the Wikimedia Foundation which will be focusing on experimenting with new tools. Currently they are building a prototype ChatGPT plugin that allows information generated by ChatGPT to be properly attributed to the Wikimedia projects.
• Gadget and userscript developers should replace jquery.cookie with mediawiki.cookie. The jquery.cookie library will be removed in ~1 month, and staff developers will run a script to replace any remaining uses at that time.

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:42, 15 May 2023 (UTC)

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • WikiRankBot (Task: Use Alexa rank (P1661). "...track the monthly ranking of websites based on Similarweb Ranking")
    • TiagoLubianaBot (Task: Link UMLS CUIs to Wikidata based on external mappings)

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Cultural Institutions and Linked Open Data Networks: Create Your Own Database with Wikibase! Friday, 05.26.2023 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m (On-line)
    • Conversation on open data and digital innovation in education. Carlos Blin Auditorium of the Central University of Chile, Av. Santa Isabel #1278, Santiago. Thursday May 25 – 10:00 a.m.
    • Towards a new national bibliographic processing policy with linked data. Monday 22 and Tuesday 23 May 2023

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Papers: Deliberative Quality in Wikimedia Projects: Comparing Requests for Comments on Meta, Wikipedia and Wikidata
  • Videos
    • Wikidata The Making Of (The history of Wikidata, from its inception to its creation and the first ten years of operation, up to 2022) - YouTube
    • ETD Wikidata Conversion Project, University of Washington - YouTube
    • Back having even more fun with Lexemes! - Twitch
  • Notebooks: Where did the Women Artists within The Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection Go To School?

• Tool of the week
  • tidywikidatar is an R package for exploring the wealth of information stored by Wikidata.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Google Summer of Code 2023 and Outreachy Round 26 candidates announced, with Wikidata-related projects
  • re•shape – A Wikimedia program to support knowledge equity - Applications are open between May 11 and June 18 to apply for a grant to create more space and visibility for marginalized knowledge.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • iconically alludes to (item that is iconically represented in the execution of this lexeme)
    • External identifiers: Wood Database ID, Humanities Commons member ID, Shipbucket ID, MEL residence ID, JMA weather station ID, Soprintendenza Speciale di Roma place ID, GamesRadar+ ID, L'Histoire par l'image ID, Napster release ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Qualigeo ID, Ut ID, RAWG developer ID, RAWG publisher ID, Israel Composers' League composer ID
  • Query examples:
    • Name of languages ​​containing the words "old" or "ancient" (source)
    • Birthplaces of humans called "Antoine" (source)
    • Who took the most pictures on WikiCommons around a Wikidata item? (source)
    • Graph of art (and other things) owned by Art Looting Red Flag Names or members of the Nazi Party at any time (source)
    • Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (Week 19, 2023) (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Personal Pronouns (Goal: Model and assign pronouns ethically in Wikidata)

• Development
  • EntitySchemas: We've continued work on the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements. (phab:T214884)
  • Converted a number of Properties from string to external ID datatype (phab:T334450)
  • mul language code: We've worked on preparing the special pages related to labels, descriptions and aliases for the new language code. (phab:T330193, phab:T329626)
  • Wikibase REST API: We continued working on the ability to modify labels of an Item using the HTTP PATCH method. (phab:T332739).

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.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • 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 · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 10:19, 15 May 2023 (UTC)

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

• Last week, Community Tech released the first update for providing better diffs, the #1 request in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey. This update adds legends and tooltips to inline diffs so that users unfamiliar with the blue and yellow highlights can better understand the type of edits made.
• When you close an image that is displayed via MediaViewer, it will now return to the wiki page instead of going back in your browser history. This feature request was voted #65 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
• The SyntaxHighlight extension now supports wikitext as a selected language. Old alternatives that were used to highlight wikitext, such as html5, moin, and html+handlebars, can now be replaced.
• Preloading text to new pages/sections now supports preloading from localized MediaWiki interface messages. Here is an example at the Czech Wikipedia that uses preload=MediaWiki:July.

Problems

• Graph Extension update: Foundation developers have completed upgrading the visualization software to Vega5. Existing community graphs based on Vega2 are no longer compatible. Communities need to update local graphs and templates, and shared lua modules like de:Modul:Graph. The Vega Porting guide provides the most comprehensive detail on migration from Vega2 and here is an example migration. Vega5 has currently just been enabled on mediawiki.org to provide a test environment for communities.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 May. It will be on all wikis from 11 May (calendar).
• Until now, all new OAuth apps went through manual review. Starting this week, apps using identification-only or basic authorizations will not require review.

Future changes

• During the next year, MediaWiki will stop using IP addresses to identify logged-out users, and will start automatically assigning unique temporary usernames. Read more at IP Editing: Privacy Enhancement and Abuse Mitigation/Updates. You can join the discussion about the format of the temporary usernames.
• There will be an A/B test on 10 Wikipedias where the Vector 2022 skin is the default skin. Half of logged-in desktop users will see an interface where the different parts of the page are more clearly separated. You can read more.
• jquery.tipsy will be removed from the MediaWiki core. This will affect some user scripts. Many lines with .tipsy( can be commented out. OO.ui.PopupWidget can be used to keep things working like they are now. You can read more and read about how to find broken scripts.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:34, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Infrastruktur (RfP scheduled to end after 12 May 2023 14:16 UTC)

• Events
  • Upcoming: October 09 - 11, 2023, Leipzig, Germany - workshop on handling and modelling mathematical research data — Wikidata, Wikibase and Scholia are all in scope
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #91, Family (2/n)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blog: VocalEyes and Wikidata: Making accessibility information easily available
  • Papers
    • Wikidata: The Making Of (by Denny Vrandečić, Lydia Pintscher and Markus Krötzsch)
    • The SciQA Scientific Question Answering Benchmark for Scholarly Knowledge
  • Videos: Back having more fun with Lexemes! by Mahir256 - Twitch

• Tool of the week

Open Burial Map - Interactive map showing the details of burial places based on OpenStreetMap and Wikidata.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Britannica Kids kids level article ID, Britannica Kids students level article ID, Britannica Kids scholars level article ID, TOOI identifier, Chess Programming Wiki ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • character in this lexeme (character(s) this lexeme consists of)
    • External identifiers: none
  • Query examples:
    • Mapping birthplace and place of death of female Dutch Resistance Fighters on a line (source)
    • Countries that have site links to French Wikipedia with a parenthesis in the title (source)
    • Map of libraries from Austria with ISIL-code or twitter-handle (source)

• Development
  • (Breaking Change Announcement) Changes to the wblistentityusage API module
  • (Breaking Change Announcement) Entity Labels Added to Parsed Edit Summaries in API Requests
  • (Breaking Change Announcement) Inconsistencies in the response of `list=wbsubscribers` API Query module
  • Query Builder: The Query Builder now has a language selector so you can change the interface language.
  • Date parsing: Input of dates in notations common in Asia, especially Japan, is now improved. (phab:T214002)
  • EntitySchemas: We are continuing the development of the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements. (phab:T214884)
  • Wikibase REST API: We finished the work on the endpoint for replacing a label of description of an Item. (phab:T323813)

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.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • 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 · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 17:57, 8 May 2023 (UTC)

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • ForgesBot (Task: Add licensing information to software forges entries in accordance to what is found in the corresponding Wikipedia page. It is used as a helper in the context of the Forges project)
    • BEANS Bot (Task: Use protocol (P2700) instead of of (P642) to specify the protocol used in port (P1641) statements.)
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
    • AddLetterboxdFilmIdBot (Task: Adding Letterboxd Film ID (P6127) statements to items which already have a TMDB Film ID (P4947))

• Events
  • Upcoming events
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call May 2, 2023: Fudie Zhao will be presenting on Wikidata in Digital Humanities projects. Agenda
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #90, Sewing
  • Past
    • Wikibase Live session (April 2023)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Creating Map Visualizations with Wikidata and Python, 24 April 2023, Jelle Vankerkvoorde
  • Videos
    • Open data and Wikidata: revolutionizing scientific research (in Spanish) - YouTube
    • Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #109 - YouTube
    • Using MixandMatch gadget - YouTube
    • Back having fun with lexemes! by Mahir256 - Twitch
    • EMWCon Spring 2023 -YouTube
      • Synchronizing your own MediaWiki and Semantic MediaWiki content with Wikidata
      • Reasons not to use Wikibase (and reasons to do so)
  • Workshops
    • Aligning Open Biological and Biomedical Ontology Foundry ontologies with Wikidata Workshop at 16th Annual International Biocuration Conference (2023) (Q111430238)
    • Tools for linking Wikidata and OpenStreetMap
    • Wikimentor Africa workshop - Learn how to report bugs, make feature requests and manage your tasks

• Tool of the week
  • Twitter Wikipedia Badge - is a Chrome extension for verifying a Twitter username using Wikidata. (code, Tweet)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • WeChangEd is an ERC-funded research project and online database by Ghent University, about women editors in Europe. The database shows stories about women editors and their publications, and is powered by Wikidata and Sciencestories.io.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Channel One Russia Worldwide program ID, LSJ Wiki ID, Wastewater treatment plant in France ID, Musées Grand Est ID, INSPIRE-HEP literature ID, Musée Fabre ID, Arabic Ontology form ID, WPGA Tour Australasia player ID, Technic Platform modpack ID, Tatoeba sentence ID, Quranic Arabic Corpus root id
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Wood Database ID, Akadem organization ID, mosff.ru player ID, BSRussia.com team ID, Diritto on line ID, Soprintendenza Speciale di Roma place ID, BSWW player ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of where the presidents of BCALA were educated (source)
    • Number of Wikipedia sitelinks for Art Looting Investigation (source)
    • Family relationships of New Zealand MPs (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Piano Rolls

• Development
  • EntitySchemas: We are still working on the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements. (phab:T214884)
  • Wikibase REST API: We're fixing several smaller issues like phab:T335578 and phab:T335581.

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.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • 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 · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:50, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

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

• The content attribution tools Who Wrote That?, XTools Authorship, and XTools Blame now support the French and Italian Wikipedias. More languages will be added in the near future. This is part of the #7 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
• The Video2commons tool has been updated. This fixed several bugs related to YouTube uploads.
• The Special:Preferences page has been redesigned on mobile web. The new design makes it easier to browse the different categories and settings at low screen widths. You can also now access the page via a link in the Settings menu in the mobile web sidebar.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 May. It will be on all wikis from 4 May (calendar).

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:43, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

Hello Karsten,

Did you by any chance stumble upon an initiative to build an extension for interfacing wikis and LLMs ? Wikis make formidable knowledge bases. Interrogating them in natural language whilst getting sourced and reliable results is the future. The collaborative philosophy of a wiki then feeds back into making the knowledge provided by the AI better.

We're looking at developing that capacity over at Wikimedica.

Hi, thank you for reaching out. No, I did not so far. My company provides development services. If you have a project tied up for this, you could contact info@professional.wiki to elaborate further.

Thanks ! I feel an extension like that would provide great value added to the enterprise MediaWiki sphere. For that reason it should be freely available.

There is a bunch of medical MediaWikis out there. I'll reach out to them and see if we can team up some resources.

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

• The date-selection menu on pages such as Special:Contributions will now show year-ranges that are in the current and past decade, instead of the current and future decade. This feature request was voted #145 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.

Problems

• Due to security issues with the Graph extension, graphs have been disabled in all Wikimedia projects. Wikimedia Foundation teams are working to respond to these vulnerabilities.
• For a few days, it was not possible to save some kinds of edits on the mobile version of a wiki. This has been fixed.

Changes later this week

• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on April 26. This is planned for 14:00 UTC.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 April. It will be on all wikis from 27 April (calendar).

Future changes

• The Editing team plans an A/B test for a usability analysis of the Talk page project. The planned measurements are available. Your wiki may be invited to participate. Please suggest improvements to the measurement plan at the discussion page.
• The Wikimedia Foundation annual plan 2023-2024 draft is open for comment and input until May 19. The final plan will be published in July 2023 on Meta-wiki.

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:01, 24 April 2023 (UTC)