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Wikidata weekly summary #634

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-07-01. Please help Translate.

Discussions

  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • DifoolBot 4 Task(s) - Split single references containing multiple reference URLs into multiple references.
    • Bot Bozze Task(s) - Add sitelinks to itwiki draft articles after they've been moved to the main namespace.
  • New request for comments: Spelling convention for labels and descriptions in English - RfC started 2024-06-25. This RfC requests feedback and input for finding consistency in spelling convention as English has multiple regional variations.

Events

  • Past: The Lexicodays 2024 was an online event designed to offer a discussion space for the Wikidata community about Lexicographical Data. An archive of some of the slides and session recordings are here c:Category:Lexicodays 2024. More will be added as they become available.
  • Upcoming:
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 10th July 2024 (18:00 Berlin time) 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.
    • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—July 3, 2024
    • Botany-focused Wikidata online workshop online as part of the #IBC2024. Date: Tuesday 9th July at 9pm NZST (GMT+12) / 11 am central Europe. Register here!

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • The second iteration of the Wikidata:Open Online Course has begun. Class will continue until August 11. Whether you're a beginner taking your first steps, an individual in need of a refresher on Wikidata concepts, or a seasoned trainer looking to level up your skills - this course is right for you.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • EntitySchemas:
    • We worked around an issue where EntitySchema pages were no longer considered “content” and had become unsearchable (phab:T368010)
    • We prepared for the release of the new datatype on July 2nd.
  • mul language code: We are working on the last remaining blocker before rolling out the first stage to Wikidata (phab:T362917)
  • Wikibase REST API: We are continuing to rework API errors (phab:T366911, phab:T366239)

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

Tech News: 2024-27

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

  • Over the next three weeks, dark mode will become available for all users, both logged-in and logged-out, starting with the mobile web version. This fulfils one of the top-requested community wishes, and improves low-contrast reading and usage in low-light settings. As part of these changes, dark mode will also work on User-pages and Portals. There is more information in the latest Web team update. [1]
  • Logged-in users can now set global preferences for the text-size and dark-mode, thanks to a combined effort across Foundation teams. This allows Wikimedians using multiple wikis to set up a consistent reading experience easily, for example by switching between light and dark mode only once for all wikis. [2]
  • If you use a very old web browser some features might not work on the Wikimedia wikis. This affects Internet Explorer 11 and versions of Chrome, Firefox and Safari older than 2016. This change makes it possible to use new CSS features and to send less code to all readers. [3][4]
  • Wikipedia Admins can customize local wiki configuration options easily using Community Configuration. Community Configuration was created to allow communities to customize how some features work, because each language wiki has unique needs. At the moment, admins can configure Growth features on their home wikis, in order to better recruit and retain new editors. More options will be provided in the coming months. [5]
  • Editors interested in language issues that are related to Unicode standards, can now discuss those topics at a new conversation space in MediaWiki.org. The Wikimedia Foundation is now a member of the Unicode Consortium, and the coordination group can collaboratively review the issues discussed and, where appropriate, bring them to the attention of the Unicode Consortium.
  • One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Mandailing (w:btm:) [6]

Problems

  • Editors can once again click on links within the visual editor's citation-preview, thanks to a bug fix by the Editing Team. [7]

Future changes

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The Signpost: 4 July 2024

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2024).

Administrator changes

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Miscellaneous

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Voting to ratify the Wikimedia Movement Charter is ending soon

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Hello everyone,

This is a kind reminder that the voting period to ratify the Wikimedia Movement Charter will be closed on July 9, 2024, at 23:59 UTC.

If you have not voted yet, please vote on SecurePoll.

On behalf of the Charter Electoral Commission,

RamzyM (WMF) 03:45, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #635

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-07-08. Please help Translate.

Events

  • Upcoming:
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 10th July 2024 (18:00 Berlin time) 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.
    • Registration for Wikimania 2024 is open! In-person participants: please register until 26 July, 11:59 p.m., UTC. Virtual participants can register anytime. If you received a scholarship from the Wikimedia Foundation, you will receive an email with a registration code and instructions.

Tool of the week

  • User:Teester/EntityShape.js - a userscript that adds an input box to a Wikidata page wherein you can enter an EntitySchema (such as E10). When you click "Check", checks whether each statement and property conforms to the schema. It then displays a summary at the top of the Item for each property indicating whether they conform or not. It also adds a badge to each statement and each property on the page indicating whether they conform or not.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • EntitySchemas: The new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements has been released.
  • mul language code: We are preparing the release.

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

Tech News: 2024-28

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

Problems

  • A problem with the color of the talkpage tabs always showing as blue, even for non-existent pages which should have been red, affecting the Vector 2022 skin, has been fixed.

Future changes

  • The Trust and Safety Product team wants to introduce temporary accounts with as little disruption to tools and workflows as possible. Volunteer developers, including gadget and user-script maintainers, are kindly asked to update the code of their tools and features to handle temporary accounts. The team has created documentation explaining how to do the update. Learn more.

Tech News survey

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:29, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

U4C Special Election - Call for Candidates

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Hello all,

A special election has been called to fill additional vacancies on the U4C. The call for candidates phase is open from now through July 19, 2024.

The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community members are invited to submit their applications in the special election for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please review the U4C Charter.

In this special election, according to chapter 2 of the U4C charter, there are 9 seats available on the U4C: four community-at-large seats and five regional seats to ensure the U4C represents the diversity of the movement. No more than two members of the U4C can be elected from the same home wiki. Therefore, candidates must not have English Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, or Italian Wikipedia as their home wiki.

Read more and submit your application on Meta-wiki.

In cooperation with the U4C,

-- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 00:02, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

Arb case of ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ

Hello, I believed this one, ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ (talk · contribs) is WMF-banned user, Gustin Kelly (talk · contribs). Will you tag their userpage as sock? -Lemonaka 03:45, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue 219, July 2024

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Wikidata weekly summary #536

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-07-15. Please help Translate.

Discussions

  • New requests for permissions/Bot: SpinachBot - Task/s: AI agent-enabled question answering through the creation and execution of complex SPARQL queries on Wikidata. Users tag the bog with wikidata-related questions, and it tries to come up with an answer by iteratively creating SPARQL queries.

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Relationships between two Wikidata items a new tool hosted on Observable which looks at all statements involving a pair of Wikidata items.
  • User:Magnus Manske/ac2wd.js - This script adds an "AC2WD" link in the tools sidebar. When you click on it, it uses the AC2WD tool to check the item for certain Authority Control IDs (eg VIAF). It then checks these AC datasets for statements (and more AC IDs). It will then add any new information it found as new statements, or add more references to existing statements where possible. A green checkmark will be appended to the link if data was added (reload the page to see), otherwise a "—" if no new data was available.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

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

Tech News: 2024-29

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

Tech News survey

Recent changes

  • Advanced item Wikimedia developers can now officially continue to use both Gerrit and GitLab, due to a June 24 decision by the Wikimedia Foundation to support software development on both platforms. Gerrit and GitLab are both code repositories used by developers to write, review, and deploy the software code that supports the MediaWiki software that the wiki projects are built on, as well as the tools used by editors to create and improve content. This decision will safeguard the productivity of our developers and prevent problems in code review from affecting our users. More details are available in the Migration status page.
  • The Wikimedia Foundation seeks applicants for the Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC). This group will bring technical contributors and Wikimedia Foundation together to co-define a more resilient, future-proof technological platform. Council members will evaluate and consult on the movement's product and technical activities, so that we develop multi-generational projects. We are looking for a range of technical contributors across the globe, from a variety of Wikimedia projects. Please apply here by August 10.
  • Editors with rollback user-rights who use the Wikipedia App for Android can use the new Edit Patrol features. These features include a new feed of Recent Changes, related links such as Undo and Rollback, and the ability to create and save a personal library of user talk messages to use while patrolling. If your wiki wants to make these features available to users who do not have rollback rights but have reached a certain edit threshold, you can contact the team. You can read more about this project on Diff blog.
  • Editors who have access to The Wikipedia Library can once again use non-open access content in SpringerLinks, after the Foundation contacted them to restore access. You can read more about this and 21 other community-submitted tasks that were completed last week.

Changes later this week

Future changes

  • Advanced item Next week, functionaries, volunteers maintaining tools, and software development teams are invited to test the temporary accounts feature on testwiki. Temporary accounts is a feature that will help improve privacy on the wikis. No further temporary account deployments are scheduled yet. Please share your opinions and questions on the project talk page. [8]
  • Editors who upload files cross-wiki, or teach other people how to do so, may wish to join a Wikimedia Commons discussion. The Commons community is discussing limiting who can upload files through the cross-wiki upload/Upload dialog feature to users auto-confirmed on Wikimedia Commons. This is due to the large amount of copyright violations uploaded this way. There is a short summary at Commons:Cross-wiki upload and discussion at Commons:Village Pump.

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Old Sock puppet investigation

Hey, you may not remember but a long time ago I set up a sock puppet investigation for a user named Vamlos I was wondering if there was some way I could have it looked at again, also do you know of some way we could comb through all his edits to make sure he hasn't manipulated any information? Also the whole reason I got into this trouble with him is because of the state the Interracial marriage page was in, and is still in, how do I go about fixing any of this? All these unresolved issues were the reason I left wiki, I see you have recently left wiki too, this site is bittersweet, I wish you the best my friend, wherever you may be Toby Mitches (talk) 14:21, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

Wikimedia Movement Charter ratification voting results

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Hello everyone,

After carefully tallying both individual and affiliate votes, the Charter Electoral Commission is pleased to announce the final results of the Wikimedia Movement Charter voting.  

As communicated by the Charter Electoral Commission, we reached the quorum for both Affiliate and individual votes by the time the vote closed on July 9, 23:59 UTC. We thank all 2,451 individuals and 129 Affiliate representatives who voted in the ratification process. Your votes and comments are invaluable for the future steps in Movement Strategy.

The final results of the Wikimedia Movement Charter ratification voting held between 25 June and 9 July 2024 are as follows:

Individual vote:

Out of 2,451 individuals who voted as of July 9 23:59 (UTC), 2,446 have been accepted as valid votes. Among these, 1,710 voted “yes”; 623 voted “no”; and 113 selected “–” (neutral). Because the neutral votes don’t count towards the total number of votes cast, 73.30% voted to approve the Charter (1710/2333), while 26.70% voted to reject the Charter (623/2333).

Affiliates vote:

Out of 129 Affiliates designated voters who voted as of July 9 23:59 (UTC), 129 votes are confirmed as valid votes. Among these, 93 voted “yes”; 18 voted “no”; and 18 selected “–” (neutral). Because the neutral votes don’t count towards the total number of votes cast, 83.78% voted to approve the Charter (93/111), while 16.22% voted to reject the Charter (18/111).

Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation:

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees voted not to ratify the proposed Charter during their special Board meeting on July 8, 2024. The Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, Nataliia Tymkiv, shared the result of the vote, the resolution, meeting minutes and proposed next steps.  

With this, the Wikimedia Movement Charter in its current revision is not ratified.

We thank you for your participation in this important moment in our movement’s governance.

The Charter Electoral Commission,

Abhinav619, Borschts, Iwuala Lucy, Tochiprecious, Der-Wir-Ing

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:52, 18 July 2024 (UTC)

IPBE permanent status

Hello. You granted me IPBE status last year in August for a period of one year and my rights are about to expire so I wanted to make you aware that I have emailed the checkuser team to appeal/apply for permanent status in case you had any input about my asking for it again this time on a permamnent basis this time. Thank you for granting me the right for this past year. It has been very helpful for me. Huggums537voted! (sign🖋️|📞talk) 15:42, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) @Huggums537: you should probably be aware that the checkusers mailing list does not accept emails from non-members, so your message may not have gone through. In future you can email the functionaries' mailing list, which checkusers are also members of, at functionaries-en@lists.wikimedia.org. I saw your request here and I've extended IPBE for you for one more year from the previous expiry. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 16:08, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
@Ivanvector, I don't believe the functionaries list accepts outside email either. The correct address for IPBE requests is checkuser-en-wp@wikipedia.org (see WP:IPECPROXY). – bradv 16:15, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
I was just about to say that I got the email address by following the instructions given in the How to request section at WP:IPECPROXY which @Bradv had beat me to already. If it isn't accepting emails instructions need to be updated or someone needs to check it to make sure emails are getting through... Huggums537voted! (sign🖋️|📞talk) 16:28, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
Hmm, the private list is checkuser-l, not checkuser-en-wp. Maybe I've got it all mixed up. Whatever it is, I didn't see your email. I'll ask around and someone will update those instructions if need be. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 16:51, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
The request did go through to the correct channel, and I just closed the ticket. – bradv 17:10, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
@Bradv and @Ivanvector, I am also applying to get permanent GIPBE at: Steward requests/Global permissions and I am concerned that a mere one year extension here will affect that decision there since they waited to see if IPBE was established here before they would establish GIPBE there. Will you please reopen the ticket here and reconsider giving me the permanent IPBE I was requesting since there was a misunderstanding here where Ivanvector essentially granted a good faith extension without even seeing the actual request? Thank you very much. Huggums537voted! (sign🖋️|📞talk) 17:24, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
My understanding of the local policy is that we are only allowed to grant the permission for terms of at most one year, and then you should re-apply if you still need it. I see nothing wrong with granting it to you for a longer term or indefinitely, other than that I don't think I'm allowed. Anyway, global IPBE does not let you edit through local IP blocks, so you'll also need the local permission even if you're granted the global one. And checkuser-en-wp is the right address: that's the intake queue for the checkuser volunteer response team, which I'm not on for some reason.
I'm going to see what we can do for you here, but it might take a little while to figure out. You're good to go for now, at least. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 18:30, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
@Ivanvector, thank you for the immediate good faith extension here without having seen the "complete and official" request first, but only this cursory one here. Also, thanks for the strong vote of confidence for an indef status on my IPBE rights. It will be ok if it takes some time to figure out because I just realized they must have changed the rules over on Meta since I first established the rights. It appears they now require a minimum two week period before granting any requests, presumably for reasons related to deliberation/consensus. On a side note, I stumbled upon some interesting information that might be helpful to the case. When I was browsing the userpage of my former mentor @SMcCandlish, I found that @Jon Kolbert had given him GIPBE with no expiry so that got me to thinking to check this list for other examples of users that are not nor ever have been admins with no expiry set on IPBE and I didn't even get past the "A"'s when I found that @Materialscientist granted Ammarpad IPBE with no expiry since late 2017. Just to make sure this was not a one-off or some weird quirk, I went ahead and found one more example where @KrakatoaKatie also granted Antiqueight IPBE with no expiry since late 2017 as well. I hope I don't have to go through the whole list in alphabetical order all the way to the "Z"'s to find every single example here... Huggums537voted! (sign🖋️|📞talk) 09:17, 12 July 2024 (UTC)
Huggums537, in 2017 IPBE and other user rights were on/off; you had it permanently or you didn't have it at all. Expiration dates for user rights didn't come until just a couple of years ago. If you want to go find all examples of IPBE without expiration, be my guest, but it won't endear you to the CUs and it won't help your case for a longer term. Please do not ping me again to this thread. Katietalk 04:05, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
My apologies to all the users pinged in this thread. I just realized I provided the examples above to prove a point without actually making any point. The point I was trying to make is that there appears to be evidence of a wide latitude for discretion of the setting of expiry as in the example just a couple years ago where @Deepfriedokra granted APK the customary one year right, then no expiry after that. Huggums537voted! (sign🖋️|📞talk) 07:59, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
There is also another very similar example to that one right here where the customary one year IPBE was granted and then no expiry after that. I'm not really all that worried about endearing myself to CU's. I just want what makes sense to me and however I can show proof it appears to be customary and fair. Thank you. Huggums537voted! (sign🖋️|📞talk) 08:43, 13 July 2024 (UTC)

Comment: I don't usually give away a whole bunch of personal information, but if it will help the process to come to a decision more efficiently, I can share the fact that my primary profession is in the transportation industry and travelling for work IS what I mainly do for a living. The real estate investing, online selling, and other stuff are just side hustles. I think reasonable people can see I am a busy person on the road not living in my parents' basement so having no expiry set would relieve me from pointless periodic time wasting. (No offense to anyone living in the folks' basement. I'm all for saving money!) Huggums537voted! (sign🖋️|📞talk) 11:59, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

@Huggums537: I have a lot of experience of granting IPBE. Yes, we have a lot of discretion. Currently the longest I grant is I think about 3 years (maybe some a bit longer), which is generally for people who have had one or more year-long grants before, and have a network/block problem (i.e. a need) lasting that long. Our granting practices have changed over time, and vary by admin for other reasons, but there is a definite trend towards not granting risky rights indefinitely. This is because users do not last forever, and when they become inactive their accounts become a rich target for compromise attempts. Plus they confound attempts to maintain rights for others who may or may not need them. I think you'll find that checkusers are on average happy to grant IPBE in many cases, for as long as they are needed. They are not needed indefinitely, which in many cases is equivalent to forever, and so it's not really reasonable to insist on indefinite. Just ask for a longer period each time and you will soon have enough IPBE to not worry about it again. Come visit me in a year and I'll make sure the next grant is longer, if you still need it. Most meta stewards understand our rights-granting policies and it shouldn't affect what they grant you. -- zzuuzz (talk) 08:44, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
WOW. 3 years seems kinda strict compared to others who have set no expiry. I appreciate the offer, but I might wait for a better one to come along from a more freethinking admin since Katie already warned me my crazy idea of going through the whole list to find all the examples wouldn't help me so it seems my best option is to humbly wait patiently for someone to be kindly generous or freethinking since I have not made any effort to endear myself to anyone. I guess that is the rub. Maybe if I wasn't so cold and calculating, then you guys would trust me more and I could endear you to just give me what I want because you like me and trust me so much...😂 Huggums537voted! (sign🖋️|📞talk) 09:47, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
Trust and like don't really come into it, though I will say that it's easy to squander good opportunities. Ivan granted IPBE apparently even without reading your full request, and I'm in the same position. No, the question is one of need. You need IPBE? You have it. You need it forever? Unlikely. -- zzuuzz (talk) 10:44, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
Well, I will keep your opportunity in mind. It is appreciated. I just see things differently than most do I guess. IPBE has probably been around here longer than I have so it doesn't make any common sense to me that it suddenly became a security risk in just the past couple years. I think you probably described the situation very accurately when you said the idea of this has led to a recent practice where ...there is a definite trend towards not granting risky rights indefinitely. I'm of the belief that this is more grounded in the "trend" part of the description where a type of herd mentality led to others following the trend thinking it was some sort of brilliant idea when in fact it may have all been started just because one person wanted some way to put a restriction on some asshole. If it truly were such a great security risk, then we would have to ask ourselves about that question of need and why anyone outside of admins much less the 5 examples I gave would ever need it "forever". We would also have to ask ourselves why all of the people who currently have it "forever" and are not admins are not being restricted with time limited rights. Has there really been any serious discussion about this "risk" or is it truly just a recent trend in the community as you described? Huggums537voted! (sign🖋️|📞talk) 13:28, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
I think that it's time to drop this, before someone starts wondering why you would care so much about avoiding scrutiny a year from now. – bradv 17:35, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
Oh. I've heard this music before and the overture to this melody tells me my eardrums will be blown out of proportion before the end of the crescendo so it was real nice chatting with you fine folks... Huggums537voted! (sign🖋️|📞talk) 20:05, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
  • Comment: Ajraddatz, was kind enough to grant the GIPBE on Meta and there was even a hint about the possibility getting GIPBE on a permanent basis next time so that is some good news. However, there seems to have been an issue with the archive bot interrupting discussions over there and I opened a discussion about it at: Meta:Talk:Steward_requests/Global_permissions#Problems_with_bot_or_stewards?_Community_decides... if anybody is interested in reading/discussing it. Also, Ajraddatz if you would like an opportunity to answer my reply that got deleted in the archive here this would probably be just as appropriate a place as any since the commentary was about this very discussion I think. Thanks. Huggums537voted! (sign🖋️|📞talk) 23:51, 22 July 2024 (UTC)
    Your tone just seems very combative here, especially since you are arguing with a bunch of highly trusted volunteers who have been doing a lot of this for a long time. It's generally recommended to come into these requests with some humility and grace. (G)IPBE is a right with a very low bar for entry, but I for example would be hesitant to grant it to a user with a history of behaviour issues on-wiki. Repeated interactions like this one might give rise to that impression about you. I say this without any malice towards you, and was happy to grant your request assuming good faith. -- Ajraddatz (talk) 01:01, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
    Ok. I clearly see the point you are trying to make and that's completely fair, but with all due respect and all of the humility or grace that I can possibly muster, I would like to suggest that using very vague and highly subjective terminology such as "tone" to determine the intent of behavior in text based messaging is extremely unreliable at worst and at best it causes enough confusion in the discussion for me to ask myself if I'm just that incredibly dense or do these over broad generalizations have so little substance that they just squish through your fingers when you try to grasp them? The two obvious solutions that stick out to me are first that you could just ask me about my tone instead of trying to guess at it and I would be very happy to relieve everyone here by letting them know I've had no harmful intent of being combative or argumentative so that way you have it straight from the primary horse's mouth that no matter what the "tone" looks like this is the meaning behind it. The other solution is to explain the points better, and if there are any secondary source experts who think they know me better than I know myself, then be my guest to get them to analyze the source material and help explain it to me what an asshole I've been because I still don't get it. Huggums537voted! (sign🖋️|📞talk) 08:02, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

The Signpost: 22 July 2024

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Wikidata weekly summary #637

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-07-22. Please help Translate.

Discussions

  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • DannyS712 bot - Task/s: I want to get approval for a bot with translation admin rights that will automatically mark pages for translations if and only if the latest version is identical to the version that is already in the translation system, i.e. only pages with no "net" changes in the pending edits.
    • DerIchBot - Task/s: Adding data about schools provided by the German and Austrian governments to wikidata.
    • DifoolBot 5 - Task/s: Change reference URLs into the related ID property and merge references with the same ID property.
    • AroundTheBot - Task/s: Automated import of Albanian nouns with IPA from Wiktionary, with the long-term goal of using this data to do pronunciation-based comparison/word evolution between languages.

Events

  • Past: Wikimedia Indonesia hosted the 2024 Data Visualization Competition from June 5 to 18. The event featured data visualizations (posters and graphics) and short essays using data from Wikidata. Visit the competition page (in Indonesian) to view the winning entries.
  • Upcoming: Wikidata's 12th birthday decentralized events will take place in October and November 2024. Feel free to browse the documentation pages to learn how to organize an event in your area, get funding, and get in touch with other organizers.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Paulina, a new tool for exploring public domain works.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • WMF Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) invites interested volunteers to apply. As part of the movement strategy recommendation for "Coordinating Across Stakeholders," the PTAC will bring technical contributors and the Wikimedia Foundation together to co-define a more resilient, future-proof technological platform.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • mul: We fixed the last blocker for the limited MUL rollout to Wikidata on July 29th (phab:T362917)
  • EntitySchemas:
  • Query Service: preparation for the graph split is continuing by the Search Platform Team. We started looking into adapting the constraints checks for it (phab:T369079)

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

Tech News: 2024-30

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

Feature News

  • Stewards can now globally block accounts. Before the change only IP addresses and IP ranges could be blocked globally. Global account blocks are useful when the blocked user should not be logged out. Global locks (a similar tool logging the user out of their account) are unaffected by this change. The new global account block feature is related to the Temporary Accounts project, which is a new type of user account that replaces IP addresses of unregistered editors that are no longer made public.
  • Later this week, Wikimedia site users will notice that the Interface of FlaggedRevs (also known as "Pending Changes") is improved and consistent with the rest of the MediaWiki interface and Wikimedia's design system. The FlaggedRevs interface experience on mobile and Minerva skin was inconsistent before it was fixed and ported to Codex by the WMF Growth team and some volunteers. [9]
  • Wikimedia site users can now submit account vanishing requests via GlobalVanishRequest. This feature is used when a contributor wishes to stop editing forever. It helps you hide your past association and edit to protect your privacy. Once processed, the account will be locked and renamed. [10]
  • Have you tried monitoring and addressing vandalism in Wikipedia using your phone? A Diff blog post on Patrolling features in the Mobile App highlights some of the new capabilities of the feature, including swiping through a feed of recent changes and a personal library of user talk messages for use when patrolling from your phone.
  • Wikimedia contributors and GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) organisations can now learn and measure the impact Wikimedia Commons is having towards creating quality encyclopedic content using the Commons Impact Metrics analytics dashboard. The dashboard offers organizations analytics on things like monthly edits in a category, the most viewed files, and which Wikimedia articles are using Commons images. As a result of these new data dumps, GLAM organisation can more reliably measure their return on investment for programs bringing content into the digital Commons. [11]

Project Updates

  • Come share your ideas for improving the wikis on the newly reopened Community Wishlist. The Community Wishlist is Wikimedia’s forum for volunteers to share ideas (called wishes) to improve how the wikis work. The new version of the wishlist is always open, works with both wikitext and Visual Editor, and allows wishes in any language.

Learn more

  • Have you ever wondered how Wikimedia software works across over 300 languages? This is 253 languages more than the Google Chrome interface, and it's no accident. The Language and Product Localization Team at the Wikimedia Foundation supports your work by adapting all the tools and interfaces in the MediaWiki software so that contributors in our movement who translate pages and strings can translate them and have the sites in all languages. Read more about the team and their upcoming work on Diff.
  • How can Wikimedia build innovative and experimental products while maintaining such heavily used websites? A recent blog post by WMF staff Johan Jönsson highlights the work of the WMF Future Audience initiative, where the goal is not to build polished products but test out new ideas, such as a ChatGPT plugin and Add a Fact, to help take Wikimedia into the future.

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Wikidata weekly summary #638

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-07-29. Please help Translate.

Discussions

  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • GergesBot 2 - Task/s: Edit label when order is added in ar:ويكيبيديا:طلبات نقل عبر البوت (Transfer requests by Bot).
    • UmisBot - Task/s: This bot will add string representations of units of measurement to units of measurement Wikidata pages.

Events

  • Upcoming:
    • Wikidata Days Bologna 2024, Italian language conference dedicated to Wikidata for libraries and research, taking place in the frame of Wikidata’s 12th birthday, on November 8-9 in Bologna, Italy.
    • Wikimania starts on August 7. Here is a list of sessions focused around Wikidata, or have *some* connection to Wikidata: 2024:Program/Wikidata. If something is missing, feel free to add to it, including any Wikidata meetups you may be hosting.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • User:Nikki/ShowIDs.js - This user script adds entity IDs in brackets after links.
  • Common values, yet another Observable notebook. This one looks at common values between two Wikidata item pages.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • IP masking: The feature was rolled out to test wikis and we fixed a few issues uncovered by this.
  • EntitySchemas: We are working to make it possible to search for the EntitySchema by its label and aliases when making a new statement linking to an EntitySchema (phab:T362005)
  • Integration in other Wikimedia projects: We are working on moving the Wikidata Item link from the tools section of the sidebar (phab:T66315)
  • REST API:
    • We changed the data-type field to data_type in JSON responses (phab:T368130)
    • We are continuing the work on improving error handling and messages

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

Tech News: 2024-31

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

Feature news

  • Editors using the Visual Editor in languages that use non-Latin characters for numbers, such as Hindi, Manipuri and Eastern Arabic, may notice some changes in the formatting of reference numbers. This is a side effect of preparing a new sub-referencing feature, and will also allow fixing some general numbering issues in Visual Editor. If you notice any related problems on your wiki, please share details at the project talkpage.

Bugs status

  • Some logged-in editors were briefly unable to edit or load pages last week. These errors were mainly due to the addition of new linter rules which led to caching problems. Fixes have been applied and investigations are continuing.
  • Editors can use the IP Information tool to get information about IP addresses. This tool is available as a Beta Feature in your preferences. The tool was not available for a few days last week, but is now working again. Thank you to Shizhao for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and 28 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Project updates

  • There are new features and improvements to Phabricator from the Release Engineering and Collaboration Services teams, and some volunteers, including: the search systems, the new task creation system, the login systems, the translation setup which has resulted in support for more languages (thanks to Pppery), and fixes for many edge-case errors. You can read details about these and other improvements in this summary.
  • There is an update on the Charts project. The team has decided which visualization library to use, which chart types to start focusing on, and where to store chart definitions.
  • One new wiki has been created: a Wikivoyage in Czech (voy:cs:) [12]

Learn more

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