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double boom for WikiTextExpander!!
[edit]holy heck I swear I had a dream about a script like this once. it's great! A feature request and an ask, though:
- Could you make it so WTE expands the entire editor if no text is selected and the shortcut is clicked twice "soon" (probably by setting a timer to revert a boolean "doublePress" to false in 4.8 seconds)?
- You may want to display a warning when both Alt and Shift are checked as this is the basis for WP:Access keys.
Aaron Liu (talk) 22:43, 11 April 2025 (UTC)
- @Aaron Liu Hmmm. Gotta think about that for a second. I also have to scrape basically everything that transcludes {{shortcut}}. Polygnotus (talk) 16:51, 12 April 2025 (UTC)
- I did namedrop you over at User talk:Polygnotus/Scripts/WikiTextExpander.js. ;-) Polygnotus (talk) 17:18, 12 April 2025 (UTC)
- Ah, I didn't see that lol. Thanks! Aaron Liu (talk) 17:08, 14 April 2025 (UTC)
- User:Polygnotus/shortcuts is a first step. Polygnotus (talk) 16:46, 14 April 2025 (UTC)
- Random acronym generator when? Polygnotus (talk) 21:39, 22 April 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-17
[edit]Latest 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
- Wikifunctions is now integrated with Dagbani Wikipedia since April 15. It is the first project that will be able to call functions from Wikifunctions and integrate them in articles. A function is something that takes one or more inputs and transforms them into a desired output, such as adding up two numbers, converting miles into metres, calculating how much time has passed since an event, or declining a word into a case. Wikifunctions will allow users to do that through a simple call of a stable and global function, rather than via a local template. [1]
- A new type of lint error has been created: Empty headings (documentation). The Linter extension's purpose is to identify wikitext patterns that must or can be fixed in pages and provide some guidance about what the problems are with those patterns and how to fix them. [2]
View all 37 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- Following its publication on HuggingFace, the "Structured Contents" dataset, developed by Wikimedia Enterprise, is now also available on Kaggle. This Beta initiative is focused on making Wikimedia data more machine-readable for high-volume reusers. They are releasing this beta version in a location that open dataset communities already use, in order to seek feedback, to help improve the product for a future wider release. You can read more about the overall Structured Contents project, and about the first release that's freely usable.
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings and events
- The Editing and Machine Learning Teams invite interested volunteers to a video meeting to discuss Peacock check, which is the latest Edit check that will detect "peacock" or "overly-promotional" or "non-neutral" language whilst an editor is typing. Editors who work with newcomers, or help to fix this kind of writing, or are interested in how we use artificial intelligence in our projects are encouraged to attend. The meeting will be on April 28, 2025 at 18:00–19:00 UTC and hosted on Zoom.
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Tech News: 2025-18
[edit]Latest 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
- Event organizers who host collaborative activities on multiple wikis, including Bengali, Japanese, and Korean Wikipedias, will have access to the CampaignEvents extension this week. Also, admins in the Wikipedia where the extension is enabled will automatically be granted the event organizer right soon. They won't have to manually grant themselves the right before they can manage events as requested by a community.
View all 19 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- The release of the next major version of Codex, the design system for Wikimedia, is scheduled for 29 April 2025. Technical editors will have access to the release by the week of 5 May 2025. This update will include a number of breaking changes and minor visual changes. Instructions on handling the breaking and visual changes are documented on this page. Pre-release testing is reported in T386298, with post-release issues tracked in T392379 and T392390.
- Users of Wiki Replicas will notice that the database views of
ipblocks
,ipblocks_ipindex
, andipblocks_compat
are now deprecated. Users can query theblock
andblock_target
new views that mirror the new tables in the production database instead. The deprecated views will be removed entirely from Wiki Replicas in June, 2025. Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
In depth
- The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization Newsletter is now available. This edition includes an overview of the improved Content Translation Dashboard Tool, support for new languages, highlights from the Wiki Loves Ramadan campaign, results from the Language Onboarding Experiment, an analysis of topic diversity in articles, and information on upcoming community meetings and events.
Meetings and events
- The Let's Connect Learning Clinic will take place on April 29 at 14:30 UTC. This edition will focus on "Understanding and Navigating Conflict in Wikimedia Projects". You can register now to attend.
- The 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon, which brings the global technical community together to connect, brainstorm, and hack existing projects, will take place from May 2 to 4th, 2025, at Istanbul, Turkey.
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MediaWiki message delivery 19:29, 28 April 2025 (UTC)
Arthur Hastings Sloggatt moved to draftspace
[edit]Thanks for your contributions to Arthur Hastings Sloggatt. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it needs more sources to establish notability, you may have a possible Conflict of Interest and one of the sources is written by the subject's son. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.
Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. Sarsenet•he/they•(talk) 11:15, 30 April 2025 (UTC)
- @Sarsenet Wrong guy. Polygnotus (talk) 11:17, 30 April 2025 (UTC)
- Hi, I notified you as you had moved the article from userspace to mainspace originally. Figured I'd let you know. Sarsenet•he/they•(talk) 11:21, 30 April 2025 (UTC)
- Ok thank you. Polygnotus (talk) 11:25, 30 April 2025 (UTC)
- Hi, I notified you as you had moved the article from userspace to mainspace originally. Figured I'd let you know. Sarsenet•he/they•(talk) 11:21, 30 April 2025 (UTC)
The image problem
[edit]A cartoon image appears in the Infobox because this is still a draft, even though in the draft content the image is of him at his drafting board. It's a distraction. Consider removing the image for now, and reinserting it only after the draft is accepted. David notMD (talk) 13:36, 30 April 2025 (UTC)
- @David notMD It was added to Template:Infobox comics creator back in 2009. You can submit an editrequest using this link but remember to mention that they should do an
insource
search in the Template namespace to find more. Polygnotus (talk) 13:39, 30 April 2025 (UTC)
The Signpost: 1 May 2025
[edit]- In the media: Feds aiming for WMF's nonprofit status
- Recent research: How readers use Wikipedia health content; Scholars generally happy with how their papers are cited on Wikipedia
- Arbitration report: Sysop Tinucherian removed and admonished by the ArbCom
- Discussion report: Latest news from Centralized discussions
- Traffic report: Of Wolf and Man
- Disinformation report: At WikiCredCon, Wikipedia editors and Internet Archive discuss threats to trust in media
- News from the WMF: Product & Tech Progress on the Annual Plan
- Comix: By territory
- Community view: A deep dive into Wikimedia
- Debriefing: Barkeep49's RfB debriefing
Have at it.
[edit]I'm posting here, per WP:TPG, as I'm not making any specific suggestions for improving the article. But regarding your comment here, I encourage you to go for it - make those improvements to the article. I've made many in the past, when the article was truly rife with WP:PROMO and WP:NOT content, and I'm happy to see other editors take a shot. JoJo Anthrax (talk) 14:14, 2 May 2025 (UTC)
- @JoJo Anthrax Last time it didn't go so well. I didn't want to be perceived to be "taking advantage" by working on the article during the block but I was probably too kind. Oh well. Polygnotus (talk) 08:48, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
- Yeah. But as I wrote, have at it! Own and all that. JoJo Anthrax (talk) 16:02, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
Reporting DetectPromo false-positive
[edit]Thomas_A._Cellucci "entrepreneur" in phrase "American entrepreneur" is not promotional Flyingphoenixchips (talk) 00:13, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
FYI
[edit]https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luis_Elizondo&diff=1288650174&oldid=1288648755
You know that template isn't needed. That page is already now drier than a dysentery victim's butt who died a thousand years ago. -- Very Polite Person (talk) 00:58, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
- @Very Polite Person Greg Atoms is clearly not a reliable source. In BLPs we should almost exclusively use reliable sources. The location of his birth is probably not disputed and not unduly self-serving (or the opposite) so we can just use an WP:ABOUTSELF source. I assume you own his book? Polygnotus (talk) 08:57, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
- This says
Elizondo was born in Miami, Florida
. Polygnotus (talk) 09:47, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
- This says:
Luis grew up in South Florida
.
- So it may be a good idea to check "Imminent". Polygnotus (talk) 09:47, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
- Also according to this he was born in 1972. The same year is mentioned here. Polygnotus (talk) 10:19, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
Edit Warring
[edit]Please quit edit warring with me as you did on the Terrence Howard page. Funkykittycat (talk) 23:26, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
- @Funkykittycat aka Gillysuitedbookworm aka Politicalscaffolder Please stop vandalising as you did at that same page. Also maybe stop socking. Polygnotus (talk) 23:27, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
Reporting DetectPromo false-positive
[edit]Parasitic_ant "drastically" in phrase "vary drastically" is not promotional Sophisticatedevening🍷(talk) 16:28, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-19
[edit]Latest 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 Wikimedia Foundation has shared the latest draft update to their annual plan for next year (July 2025–June 2026). This includes an executive summary (also on Diff), details about the three main goals (Infrastructure, Volunteer Support, and Effectiveness), global trends, and the budget and financial model. Feedback and questions are welcome on the talk page until the end of May.
Updates for editors
- For wikis that have the CampaignEvents extension enabled, two new feature improvements have been released:
- Admins can now choose which namespaces are permitted for Event Registration via Community Configuration (documentation). The default setup is for event registration to be permitted in the Event namespace, but other namespaces (such as the project namespace or WikiProject namespace) can now be added. With this change, communities like WikiProjects can now more easily use Event Registration for their collaborative activities.
- Editors can now transclude the Collaboration List on a wiki page (documentation). The Collaboration List is an automated list of events and WikiProjects on the wikis, accessed via Special:AllEvents (example). Now, the Collaboration List can be added to all sorts of wiki pages, such as: a wiki mainpage, a WikiProject page, an affiliate page, an event page, or even a user page.
View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- Developers who use the
moment
library in gadgets and user scripts should revise their code to use alternatives like theIntl
library or the newmediawiki.DateFormatter
library. Themoment
library has been deprecated and will begin to log messages in the developer console. You can see a global search for current uses, and ask related questions in this Phabricator task. - Developers who maintain a tool that queries the Wikidata term store tables (
wbt_*
) need to update their code to connect to a separate database cluster. These tables are being split into a separate database cluster. Tools that query those tables via the wiki replicas must be adapted to connect to the new cluster instead. Documentation and related links are available. [3] Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
In depth
- The latest Chart Project newsletter is available. It includes updates on preparing to expand the deployment to additional wikis as soon as this week (starting May 6) and scaling up over the following weeks, plus exploring filtering and transforming source data.
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MediaWiki message delivery 00:12, 6 May 2025 (UTC)
Reporting DetectPromo false-positive
[edit]Abraham_Van_Neste "revolutionary" in phrase "American revolutionary war" is not promotional Sophisticatedevening🍷(talk) 13:17, 6 May 2025 (UTC)
Contentious topics notification
[edit] You have recently made edits related to the Arab–Israeli conflict. This is a standard message to inform you that the Arab–Israeli conflict is a designated contentious topic. This message does not imply that there are any issues with your editing. Additionally, editors must be logged-in, have 500 edits and an account age of 30 days, and are not allowed to make more than 1 revert on the same page within 24 hours for pages within this topic. For more information about the contentious topics system, please see Wikipedia:Contentious topics. Jclemens (talk) 00:22, 8 May 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks! Polygnotus (talk) 00:30, 8 May 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-20
[edit]Latest 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 "Get shortened URL" link on the sidebar now includes a QR code. Wikimedia site users can now use it by scanning or downloading it to quickly share and access shared content from Wikimedia sites, conveniently.
Updates for editors
- The Wikimedia Foundation is working on a system called Edge Uniques, which will enable A/B testing, help protect against distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS attacks), and make it easier to understand how many visitors the Wikimedia sites have. This is to help more efficiently build tools which help readers, and make it easier for readers to find what they are looking for. Tech News has previously written about this. The deployment will be gradual. Some might see the Edge Uniques cookie the week of 19 May. You can discuss this on the talk page.
- Starting May 19, 2025, Event organisers in wikis with the CampaignEvents extension enabled can use Event Registration in the project namespace (e.g., Wikipedia namespace, Wikidata namespace). With this change, communities don't need admins to use the feature. However, wikis that don't want this change can remove and add the permitted namespaces at Special:CommunityConfiguration/CampaignEvents.
- The Wikipedia project now has a Wikipedia in Nupe (
w:nup:
). This is a language primarily spoken in the North Central region of Nigeria. Speakers of this language are invited to contribute to new Wikipedia. View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- Developers can now access pre-parsed Dutch Wikipedia, amongst others (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese) through the Structured Contents snapshots (beta). The content includes parsed Wikipedia abstracts, descriptions, main images, infoboxes, article sections, and references.
- The
/page/data-parsoid
REST API endpoint is no longer in use and will be deprecated. It is scheduled to be turned off on June 7, 2025. Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
In depth
- The IPv6 support is a newly introduced Cloud virtual network that significantly boosts Wikimedia platforms' scalability, security, and readiness for the future. If you are a technical contributor eager to learn more, check out this blog post for an in-depth look at the journey to IPv6.
Meetings and events
- The 2nd edition of 2025 of Afrika Baraza, a virtual platform for African Wikimedians to connect, will take place on May 15 at 17:00 UTC. This edition will focus on discussions regarding Wikimedia Annual planning and progress.
- The MENA Connect Community Call, a virtual meeting for MENA Wikimedians to connect, will take place on May 17 at 17:00 UTC. You can register now to attend.
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The Signpost: 14 May 2025
[edit]- In the media: Wikimedia Foundation sues over UK government decision that might require identity verification of editors worldwide
- Disinformation report: What does Jay-Z know about Wikipedia?
- Technology report: WMF introduces unique but privacy-preserving browser cookie
- Debriefing: Goldsztajn's RfA debriefing
- Obituary: Max Lum (User:ICOHBuzz)
- Community view: A Deep Dive Into Wikimedia (part 2)
- Comix: Collection
- From the archives: Humor from the Archives
Team leader
[edit]I was made redundant after I told the companies owner that his idiocy made my position pointless. So "unruly"? yes, "pay raise"? no. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested «@» °∆t° 21:55, 15 May 2025 (UTC)
Knock it off. You're being disruptive. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 21:57, 15 May 2025 (UTC)
- @ScottishFinnishRadish Bit of a history to that, see here and there and that and various other places. But yeah such debates are pointless. Polygnotus (talk) 22:07, 15 May 2025 (UTC)
- It's much easier to block someone for bludgeoning when there aren't others doing the same thing. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 22:10, 15 May 2025 (UTC)
- @ScottishFinnishRadish Good point, agreed. Polygnotus (talk) 22:14, 15 May 2025 (UTC)
- It's much easier to block someone for bludgeoning when there aren't others doing the same thing. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 22:10, 15 May 2025 (UTC)
ww → www replacement
[edit]Hi Polygnotus. Just letting you know that I've mass-rollbacked your 12 AWB edits changing ww
to www
. In the first three I looked at (Mike Tyson, Rami Malek, Sweden), your edit changed a previously working URL to a broken one. If there's any cases where your change was an improvement, please feel free to restore, but please do try to be more careful using AWB. Thanks. -- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (they|xe|🤷) 04:47, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
- @Tamzin I am a genius. I confused the browser window with the working URLs with the browser window with the broken URLs. D'oh! My bad, thanks for spotting it. Polygnotus (talk) 05:26, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
- Heh, earlier this week I had my monthly case of thinking "holy shit these sockpuppets' edits are, like, identical" before realizing that I'd opened the same tab twice. Fortunately I did catch that before I blocked, and they were socks anyways. But I have seen at least one case where someone got blocked based on a CU comparing a set of results to itself. 😬 The perils of tabs... -- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (they|xe|🤷) 05:52, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-21
[edit]Latest 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 Editing Team and the Machine Learning Team are working on a new check for newcomers: Peacock check. Using a prediction model, this check will encourage editors to improve the tone of their edits, using artificial intelligence. We invite volunteers to review the first version of the Peacock language model for the following languages: Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, English, and Japanese. Users from these wikis interested in reviewing this model are invited to sign up at MediaWiki.org. The deadline to sign up is on May 23, which will be the start date of the test.
Updates for editors
- From May 20, 2025, oversighters and checkusers will need to have their accounts secured with two-factor authentication (2FA) to be able to use their advanced rights. All users who belong to these two groups and do not have 2FA enabled have been informed. In the future, this requirement may be extended to other users with advanced rights. Learn more.
Multiblocks will begin mass deployment by the end of the month: all non-Wikipedia projects plus Catalan Wikipedia will adopt Multiblocks in the week of May 26, while all other Wikipedias will adopt it in the week of June 2. Please contact the team if you have concerns. Administrators can test the new user interface now on your own wiki by browsing to Special:Block?usecodex=1, and can test the full multiblocks functionality on testwiki. Multiblocks is the feature that makes it possible for administrators to impose different types of blocks on the same user at the same time. See the help page for more information. [4]
- Later this week, the Special:SpecialPages listing of almost all special pages will be updated with a new design. This page has been redesigned to improve the user experience in a few ways, including: The ability to search for names and aliases of the special pages, sorting, more visible marking of restricted special pages, and a more mobile-friendly look. The new version can be previewed at Beta Cluster now, and feedback shared in the task. [5]
- The Chart extension is being enabled on more wikis. For a detailed list of when the extension will be enabled on your wiki, please read the deployment timeline.
- Wikifunctions will be deployed on May 27 on five Wiktionaries: Hausa, Igbo, Bengali, Malayalam, and Dhivehi/Maldivian. This is the second batch of deployment planned for the project. After deployment, the projects will be able to call functions from Wikifunctions and integrate them in their pages. A function is something that takes one or more inputs and transforms them into a desired output, such as adding up two numbers, converting miles into metres, calculating how much time has passed since an event, or declining a word into a case. Wikifunctions will allow users to do that through a simple call of a stable and global function, rather than via a local template.
- Later this week, the Wikimedia Foundation will publish a hub for experiments. This is to showcase and get user feedback on product experiments. The experiments help the Wikimedia movement understand new users, how they interact with the internet and how it could affect the Wikimedia movement. Some examples are generated video, the Wikipedia Roblox speedrun game and the Discord bot.
View all 29 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, there was a bug with creating an account using the API, which has now been fixed. [6]
Updates for technical contributors
- Gadgets and user scripts that interact with Special:Block may need to be updated to work with the new manage blocks interface. Please review the developer guide for more information. If you need help or are unable to adapt your script to the new interface, please let the team know on the talk page. [7]
- The
mw.title
object allows you to get information about a specific wiki page in the Lua programming language. Starting this week, a new property will be added to the object, namedisDisambiguationPage
. This property allows you to check if a page is a disambiguation page, without the need to write a custom function. [8] User script developers can use a new reverse proxy tool to load javascript and css from gitlab.wikimedia.org with
mw.loader.load
. The tool's author hopes this will enable collaborative development workflows for user scripts including linting, unit tests, code generation, and code review on gitlab.wikimedia.org without a separate copy-and-paste step to publish scripts to a Wikimedia wiki for integration and acceptance testing. See Tool:Gitlab-content on Wikitech for more information.Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
Meetings and events
- The 12th edition of Wiki Workshop 2025, a forum that brings together researchers that explore all aspects of Wikimedia projects, will be held virtually on 21-22 May. Researchers can register now.
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MediaWiki message delivery 23:10, 19 May 2025 (UTC)
Reporting DetectPromo false-positive
[edit]Zo_nationalism "revolutionary" in phrase "zomi revolutionary army" is not promotional Flyingphoenixchips (talk) 02:22, 22 May 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-22
[edit]Latest 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
- A community-wide discussion about a very delicate issue for the development of Abstract Wikipedia is now open on Meta: where to store the abstract content that will be developed through functions from Wikifunctions and data from Wikidata. The discussion is open until June 12 at Abstract Wikipedia/Location of Abstract Content, and every opinion is welcomed. The decision will be made and communicated after the consultation period by the Foundation.
Updates for editors
- Since last week, on all wikis except the largest 20, people using the mobile visual editor will have additional tools in the menu bar, accessed using the new
+
toolbar button. To start, the new menu will include options to add: citations, hieroglyphs, and code blocks. Deployment to the remaining wikis is scheduled to happen in June. The
#ifexist
parser function will no longer register a link to its target page. This will improve the usefulness of Special:WantedPages, which will eventually only list pages that are the target of an actual red link. This change will happen gradually as the source pages are updated. [9]- This week, the Moderator Tools team will launch a new filter to Recent Changes, starting at Indonesian Wikipedia. This new filter highlights edits that are likely to be reverted. The goal is to help Recent Changes patrollers identify potentially problematic edits. Other wikis will benefit from this filter in the future.
- Upon clicking an empty search bar, logged-out users will see suggestions of articles for further reading. The feature will be available on both desktop and mobile. Readers of Catalan, Hebrew, and Italian Wikipedias and some sister projects will receive the change between May 21 and mid-June. Readers of other wikis will receive the change later. The goal is to encourage users to read the wikis more. Learn more.
- Some users of the Wikipedia Android app can use a new feature for readers, WikiGames, a daily trivia game based on real historical events. The release has started as an A/B test, available to 50% of users in the following languages: English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, and Turkish.
- The Newsletter extension that is available on MediaWiki.org allows the creation of various newsletters for global users. The extension can now publish new issues as section links on an existing page, instead of requiring a new page for each issue. [10]
View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- The previously deprecated
ipblocks
views in Wiki Replicas will be removed in the beginning of June. Users are encouraged to query the newblock
andblock_target
views instead. Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
Meetings and events
- Wikidata and Sister Projects is a multi-day online event that will focus on how Wikidata is integrated to Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects. The event runs from May 29 – June 1. You can read the Program schedule and register.
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MediaWiki message delivery 20:02, 26 May 2025 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #681
[edit]
week leading up to 2025-05-27. Missed the previous one? See issue #680.
Help with Translations.
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot: William Avery Bot 12 - Task(s): Add PubMed publication ID(P698) to items that lack it, but have DOI(P356), which allows it to be looked up using the PubMed API.
- Talk: Wikidata Identifiers (No value for missing Ids): about how to indicate that a certain entity is absent in a given database
Events
- Upcoming events:
- Wikidata and Sister Projects
During 4 half-days of sessions showcasing and showing how Wikidata supports and is integrated to the other Wikimedia projects
From Thursday, May 29 from 16:00 UTC to Sunday, June 1 13:30 UTC.
Registration link - Program - Questions? (Talk page)
- Wikidata and Sister Projects
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Taiwan Street-view Expedition (Huwei and Tuku, Yunlin, Taiwan) - joint OSM and Wikidata activity
- Papers
- (Italian) Termini, dati e collegamenti: ‘conversazioni’ tra il Thesaurus del Nuovo soggettario e Wikidata: This study is about the history of the cooperation between the Thesaurus del Nuovo soggettario (the main thesaurus used by Italian libraries for subject indexing) and Wikimedia projects, initially Wikipedia and now mainly Wikidata
- WikiDBGraph: Large-Scale Database Graph of Wikidata for Collaborative Learning By Wu et al., (2025) — This study introduces WikiDBGraph, a network of 100,000 linked databases from Wikidata, using 17 million connections to improve AI learning and reveal challenges in handling interconnected data.
- Filling in the Blanks? A Systematic Review and Theoretical Conceptualisation for Measuring WikiData Content Gaps By Ripoll et al., (2025) – The paper systematically reviews content gaps in Wikidata, proposing a typology of missing data and a framework to measure these gaps, highlighting their impact on knowledge quality and completeness.
- AI in Data Management and Analysis By Haber et al., (2025) – This paper explores how AI streamlines academic data tasks like cleaning and analysis, whike tools like Google DataPrep, Airtable and Wikidata help researchers, but human oversight is key to maintaining accuracy and ethics in research.
- Videos
- Using PetScan to create lists from Wikipedia and Wikidata By Tamsin Braisher (Dr Thneed).
- (Spanish) Connecting Collections: Wikidata as a Bridge between Museums and Communities By Museo de los Museos and Carla Toro.
Tool of the week
- Wikidata Toolkit The Wikidata Toolkit is an open-source Java library for using data from Wikidata and other Wikibase sites. Its main goal is to make it easy for external developers to take advantage of this data in their own applications.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- A discussion on Meta about a very delicate issue for the development of Abstract Wikipedia is now open: where to store the abstract content that will be developed through functions from Wikifunctions and data from Wikidata. Some of the hypothesis involve Wikidata. You can read the various hypothesis and have your say at Abstract Wikipedia/Location of Abstract Content.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: Geographicus cartographer ID, Wikibase of Czech Librarians ID, Jesuit Online Necrology ID, Ons Land ID, VejinBooks author ID, PC98 Images game ID, Rhein-Neckar-Wiki ID, CvLAC ID, Stadtwiki Meißen ID, WürzburgWiki ID, Wetzipedia ID, AW-Wiki ID, Tüik village ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
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DuplicateReferences question
[edit]Hi Polygnotus, is it possible to override the automatic edit summary when using your script? I was thinking of using something like: Tagged duplicate citations using DuplicateReferences Nobody (talk) 12:37, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- @1AmNobody24: Sure, see here. Polygnotus (talk) 12:46, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you! Nobody (talk) 12:48, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- Not sure if you have a bugtracker, but it just did this. Nobody (talk) 13:29, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- Hm, I should look into the morebits template insertion logic, one sec. Polygnotus (talk) 13:39, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- @1AmNobody24 I am now using the Wikipedia:Morebits template insertion logic, which should work now. Polygnotus (talk) 13:47, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks for the quick fix. Nobody (talk) 13:48, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- Yeah it was already on the todolist but I hadn't gotten around to it yet. Polygnotus (talk) 13:50, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- Continued at MediaWiki_talk:Gadget-morebits.js#Morebits_and_MOS:ORDER. Polygnotus (talk) 21:50, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks for the quick fix. Nobody (talk) 13:48, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
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Thanks so much for going through those article issues with me on my talk page! As a new Wikipedian, it really helped to receive such good constructive criticism on these articles and make the fixes that I had to. Keep up the good work! Reverosie (talk) 19:45, 28 May 2025 (UTC) |
- Thank you @Reverosie! I always learn a lot from typofixing and discover all kinds of interesting articles. Polygnotus (talk) 20:09, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
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Please stop. From kitty litter, to just refusing to let someone retire, to toilet paper orientation (for the record, it's over. And yes that's WP:NPOV because WP:FACTS). You have no right to make my day that much. Cheers, GoldRomean (talk) 00:12, 29 May 2025 (UTC) |
- Oh, and on a completely unrelated note, I now have to know whether you're named after the painter, crater, or disambiguation page. Or something else. GoldRomean (talk) 00:15, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you! The 'over' method is superior because it doubles as a cat toy.
I now have to know whether you're named after the painter, crater, or disambiguation page.
I am named after the Wikipedia user of that name. Polygnotus (talk) 03:09, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you! The 'over' method is superior because it doubles as a cat toy.